Brookdale Vacaville

Marie Nenio

2016-02-05

It's a safe warm place that has amazing caring staff

Rebecca H.

2019-02-08

The people at Brookdale are amazing.  They took fabulous care is my father and were extra accommodating with my mother's illness.  They are warm, friendly and loving.

Jan V.

2019-02-08

My mother moved into Brookdale about 6 months ago and has adjusted very well. She did not want to be moved and was upset at first. The staff went out of their way to help her and have been wonderful!  The rooms are bright and cheerful and the food is delicious. She enjoys the activities and bingo!  I am very happy with her care and all the help we have received. I highly recommend this facility!

Jenifer D.

2016-10-31

Happy Halloween to Brookdale residents!! My boys and I would like to thank you for welcoming us to your facility for trick-or-treating this evening.Your fliers were put out on Facebook at the perfect time, and gave wonder for details about times. When I arrived there with my 12-year-old, and seven-year-old, we were welcomed by wonder woman and other staff members with fresh made popcorn, drinks, and directions on how visit all the residents. It was wonderful to see the residents sitting outside with baskets full of candy as we walked by. They all met us with warm smiles and welcomes and I know they enjoyed us there as much as we enjoyed visiting.I grabbed a business card and have plans to take my children back to volunteer in the near future. Rather than just taking on Halloween, my children both saw  people Who would not be able to see trick-or-treaters smiling and happy to See us.Can't wait to see you all soon and maybe stop by at Christmas to sing some songs... It might be a bit off key though!

Kerri C.

2016-05-05

Welcome to Wall Street! Brookdale Senior Living Inc. is one of if not the largest publicly traded corporations in the United States offering corporate style senior living. It has 53,000 employees and last year's gross revenues were $4.24 billion. The stock may be a good buy at the moment at around $18/share, down from $38/share a year ago. Sounds like an unstable business to me. What's going on? I've no idea. I do know my mother's rent at the Yellowstone Drive location (which isn't listed on Yelp so I'm reviewing it here) has gone up around 50% in the last 8 years. My mother has been spending down her savings to continue living there and will likely run out of funds in the next few years. So this place is doing an excellent job of getting the last of her money, and perhaps that of many other Brookdale residents throughout the country too. Maybe Brookdale corporate headquarters is hoping this strategy will eventually help their stock recover and soar to new heights. In addition, this Brookdale facility is now on it's 4th owner since my mother moved in, so big corporations have been "flipping" this facility. I believe my mother stays because she has made friendships there, plus perhaps imagines she has nowhere else to go, and/or is overwhelmed by the prospect of moving.In spite of the rent increases, which are much greater than the cost of living (so they are about profit and not real operating costs), the quality of service has declined as well. My mother complains about nearly everything and I can't argue with her. The food is poor quality institutional, provided by institutional food distributor Sysco. I would refuse to eat there on a regular basis and know of resident's going out to eat because of the poor food quality. The "creative care" which offers as needed care taking to residents seems extra high priced. The staff there are generally nice but the management is often unresponsive because they must enforce Brookdale's Wall Street, profit driven policies.If you like what Wall Street is doing in general and/or to seniors, especially Brookdale, move here or help your loved one do so.Update May 2016: My mother's latest Brookdale news... "Bedbugs have been found and exterminators came into one man's apartment and upset everything and never put anything back, papers and clothes were tossed all over the floor." Regarding the new decor... "Psychedelic prints that not even a college kid wants in their dorm they look so horrible, I think they bought these out a warehouse of pictures that couldn't be sold." Regarding the new flooring... "The artificial wooden floors show an extra lot of dirt so they almost always look dirty." Regarding the new dining room chairs... "They're beautiful but heavy and cumbersome, seats are higher and deeper, feel like a teeter totter, and are too high to sit back for back support and still have feet reach the floor. Whoever the interior decorator was had no idea what seniors needed."

Darlene K.

2015-12-26

I have visited this facility and there is simply no great things to say for it.  This place is under staffed, there have been seniors left in their room screaming for help, either for needing to get to the bathroom, gone the bathroom in their beds, or in need of some assistance and caregivers as well as residents ignore or just no longer hear the call.I have witnessed residents getting the wrong pill, thank God some of them know the colors of their pills and can still count, some have been given more or less...GEEZ!!!