Fields Senior Living

The staff at Emeritus at Bakersfield is outstandingly friendly! Communication between here and at home could be improved. When i am visiting (as I am at this time) I am always able to ask questions and get information. When I am at home, however, it is a little harder to get information, and there have been a few times when I was told I would receive a call back and did not.

The activities could use a few more options. They need to pay more attention to their diabetic residents, and the food isn't that good I would say about a three out of five. Their menus need to have more diabetic options. Kim used to be the manager and isn't anymore and that isn't good, they were kind of my deciding factor. All in all for the money I think it's a good product.

During the touring and selection process they were very helpful and attentive here, but I feel like once we moved in and they were paid they really dropped the ball when it came to the service. The director, who we'd been in communication with when we were touring never came to introduce herself after we moved in. Really there was no orientation or welcome of any kind, other than a note in the room. We had to wander around the community ourselves to find and introduce ourselves to her med-tech, and to get her set up with the medication service. And now that she has been there a few weeks we're still not very impressed with the care, we're still having to stay very involved and on top of things when it comes to her care. We'd hoped they'd be much more hands on and take some of the load off of our shoulders. All that being said, this is still a very nice community despite the lack of proactive communication from the staff. The caregivers themselves are all very friendly, and they've been doing a great job of getting her involved in the social activities. Just keep in mind that you'll need to keep an eye on your loved one's situation here.

The activities are a problem because mother just swears that there's no activities and the staff swears that she's going to activities but I don't know what is true. I do see lots of notifications for activities, the ones I see in progress there may be 4 or 5 people there; they do encourage her to participate and be active and they're very good about coming to get her and escorting her to meals and they come into her room to talk to her and check on her, and check on her frequently. We liked the friendliness of the staff, the appearance, when we're here there are people checking in on her all the time and that's really important. For the most part the care has been handled well, unfortunately I'm 2 hours away so I don't get to see her too often and we aren't really sure that she's going to the activities. You really have to be specific though, we were told they had 24 hour nursing and thought that meant RN nursing, but they have an RN on call at night and LVN's during the day so we're looking for a facility that has RN's full time.

This facility was beautiful. I think my mom has become overwhelmed with the amount of other clients onsite.

Would have really loved to get our loved one here but they did not have any private rooms available. The community is really nice and beautiful. The only difference with this community and Emeritus at Rancho Solano would have been the convinience for our family to visit. I would recommend this community to anyone. Only reason we did not choose it was because of the lack of a private room available.

This place was super clean and nice and Director was very helpful. We really liked the room set up as well as the court yard and outside spaces. Residents have access to it at all times.

Liked this place very much; #1 on my list. Clean, bright, no smells, everyone seemed happy to live AND work there. Fair prices with no move in fees.

Very nice large facility; friendly staff and residents. Rooms around a square so one would not get lost easily. Lovely open vaulted dining room which could be viewed from second story.

I was a companion care worker. The staff was very friendly and helpful in the two years I was there. They are professional and caring about there residents . I would place a loved one there . Administration works very closely with staff to ensure the best care for your loved one. They have outings and special events you can enjoy also. Activities are daily I would suggest to take a look you will be impressed .

The food was excellent, the service was good as well. What they could improve is they could clean the sheets more often, it smells awful. I have never seen anything like it before, and they only vacuum once a week. It should be at least twice a week. Everything else was good. though, the aides were nice.

My father stayed here for two weeks ( respite ) and said it was 50/50 for him. His biggest complaint was that when he pressed the button for service, it would take up to 2 hours at times for someone to respond. Not good if you had an emergency. Clean, modern facilities and courteous staff. Once a caregiver arrived the service was excellent.

In the beginning I would give them 5 stars, but they have just changed executive directors and there are a lot of changes going on within the facility and staff. The assisted living residents get more attention than memory care which I feel is a bit backwards. I have been disappointed in the activities. They say they have activities provided, but I have not witnessed it. They have a lot going on in assisted living and they bring entertainment in, but I would really like to see more going in in the memory care unit. The director has only been here for a few weeks and I have not even met her yet, but we are hoping to see some improvements soon.

While our loved one was there everything stared out great, the staff were friendly but then we started having some issues. The care services were slipping through the cracks and they loss attention to detail especially. with their protocols

We toured here for my loved one. The people were really nice, and the staff was friendly and professional. However, the community was not as secure as I would have liked. I wanted my loved one to safely be able to enjoy the outside, so I ultimately chose another community.

After touring this facility, I saw that it was fairly nice. The building seemed a bit older, but it was still clean. My primary concern with this Brookdale location was the fact that the building was too spread out and things weren't quite as remote as my loved one would want them to be. Ultimately, it seems like a fine facility.

My mother is no longer living at the Brookdale Bakersfield but when she was, they took good care of her. I only was only able to visit her once. I didn't like that the doctor would only check on her once a week. The staff was all attentive but it seemed like they could use some help. Overall they took good care of her while she was there, but could use some improvements.

This facility looked clean and inviting him the staff they were very nice and took us around although I did hurt hear that they had a recent death due to not adhering to the doctors prescription on one of the patients diets so that pretty much eliminated this facility for me.

I liked the facility for independent care. I didn't see any activities going on or interaction . Did not care for the memory care wing . I like the promotion and I liked the room share configuration .

One, I didn't like that it was seven patients to a caregiver. I thought that was too much. Then the gal kept talking about if they fall, she made it seem like people were just wandering around the halls and falling all the time. My husband noticed not as clean as he thought it should be, he didn't like the outside grounds as much.