Holiday Valencia Commons

Super clean home environment, with wide variety of food choices prepared daily by gourmet chef. Senior residents are active and cognitive making it easy for my mother who is independent with only minor caregiver needs. Spacious one bedroom with lots of natural light and a private balcony. They do have an onsite caregiver and home care service vendors onsite which gives me daily piece of mind that someone checks in on her frequently. She recently fell and the caregiver and managers responded immediately and kept me in the loop.

The people are friendly and all the tenants are friendly. I really have nothing bad to say. I would definitely recommend them. If I had to pick one thing, it would be the food. My loved one is used to her own cooking, and for her to have different dishes, she is just not used to it, but she seems happy with it.

Overall they have just been great. They are extremely friendly and try really hard to meet the needs of the people that live there. My mother just had her birthday there and they all sang happy birthday to her and made it a very pleasant experience.

I keep asking my mother (the one staying at Valencia Commons) and she keeps telling me that she loves it there and is very happy. She never did get a chance to speak with the cook to express her specific dietary requests, but the food there was pretty decent. There was an instance where she sat down for dinner and had one of the other residents tell her that it was her spot, and she felt like she had to leave that table. I did not like that. Other than that she has made friends there and really seems to be happy.

Activities seem to focus on card games. They recently had an outing to the horse races. They do have music based activities through out the month. More outings to community concerts, plays, would be nice. There is a lot of free and low cost events at the high schools and colleges in the area. A suggestion on meals: rolls and breads are always white flour. I have heard several people comment on no whole wheat breads. This seems odd when planning meals for an older population. Occasionally some food items are heavily salted, but overall menus are tasty. My parents are happy at Valencia Commons and are having more social opportunities than when they lived alone. Have not used care services so gave a neutral score.

It's a safe environment. It's a beautiful place. The staff here is unbelievable, they are the greatest people I have ever met. The caretakers are just amazing. The food is not gourmet, but it's fine, I have eaten it before.

I think think it is a good community for those who are able to care for themselves. Once you need extra care, or help, it is beyond expensive. If your loved one needs 24/7 care or daily help, I would not recommend Valencia Commons.

It seems to be a really nice place. My mother in law lives here and she really likes it. It is always clean, which is very important. The staff has been wonderful. They are very accommodating and helpful. They always return our calls. It has been a great experience. I can't rate the care services or the activities because it is not applicable. She doesn't participate in the activities.

Valencia Commons has great customer service. Everyone there is really very nice. Overall it is a really nice place and one I would highly recommend.

Missy was very nice. I was impressed with the studios we were shown. It still seems that a majority of the residents we saw in the dining hall used wheelchairs or walkers. In the running!!!

This is too far from my health care providers.

Beautiful facilities. I wouldnt mind living there

Jacquie McCord sent me the names and address of numerous places to consider when looking for a residence for my mother. We drove past several of them, but Valencia Commons was the first place we actually visited. The staff greeted us at the door. Missy started off the visit by talking to my mother, not to me. This scored high points with me!!! She is the one who would be living there, her needs and safety were my primary concern. I would not let her go to a place where they would not even talk to her. Things I was looking for included friendliness of the staff, cleanliness of the facility (including lack of cobwebs and lack of dirt in the corners!), smiles from the residents, and clean smells. All of this was present and very evident when we first walked in. We did look at other residences, but they paled in comparison. Mother had her mind made up early in the search, and she wanted to go to Valencia Commons from the very first. I thought she should see other places, and almost had to force her to look. When we moved her belongings in, and was getting her settled in her apartment, staff kept checking to make sure Mom had what she needed and that we didn't need help from them. Questions were answered, and help was forth-coming in a very timely manner. I had to return to my home in Maine before Mom was completely settled. Leaving her was very hard, but I knew that she was in a safe and caring place. Her phone was not connected before I left, and the office staff was wonderful about passing on the message to Mom that I had arrived home safely. It is their attention to the little details that make this an exceptional place! Many thanks to Missy and Keith, Sonietta, and Elizabeth for all of their help!

It's a very fine facility. The person I know there is doing very well.

We're extremely happy, it's wonderful. The workers there are jsut so friendly and they'll do anything and everything, there's never been a time when I've gotten there and haven't been greeted or said hello to. They're constantly taking care of things all the time, the care is excellent, we picked up on Delphina's personal care and they're just excellent and mommas so happy and doing very well. Often times they have people coming in with music and such and the care givers always make sure that they take her to that; they constantly have things going on all the time. The food is great, they're very caring and if there's things they don't like they make sure they don't give it to them. They have several personal care groups there in Valencia and interviewed several, it was just so wonderful for us. When we went up there to see it it was like like "ah, this is perfect."

Beautiful grounds and housing. But, not sure this would be right for Mom. She needs more assisted care than they normally provide.

Valencia Commons has been very helpful, although, there have been some things they never followed through on so we had to take care of them on our own. We looked at six other places before deciding on Valenica Commons, primarily because of it's proximity to a family friend.

The facility and management were extremely nice. This is more of an 'independent' living place with lots of retirees, therefore any added/level care services are at an addl cost. The studio room is large; but $3300/month way above out budget.

When I called they said they did not have anything for dimentia, it is more for seniors without health issues.

Nice but too big and only have 1 bedroom available at the momeent. Assisted living support separate.