Sunrise of Fair Oaks VA

Great value for the price. Adjacent to a big hospital and natural areas. She is checking to see if they can offer a discount on 2nd person like the other Sunrise facilities. Checked all the boxes and nice updated decor.

This community seemed clean when we visited. They are a little higher priced and they offered shared rooms. We did not think a shared room would work for mom. They do have an open and airy foyer. They seemed to have activities and the people we met were nice.

My wife was there for awhile till our next option. They are not an appropriate place for nursing care but they were able to have my wife for awhile. They staff tried very hard to give the care she needed. This is more for people who are in good health.

I was very dissatisfied, the staff failed to keep my mom clean with her hygiene as well as the community it was absolutely disturbing. There was never anything documented and the communication between the staff was awful. All of the residents looked like zombies and seemed very miserable. I removed my mother from that community and she will not be returning.

Nice facility--not as many types of rooms available. Did not want to wait for the room we wanted. recommend going to see what they have as they are comparable with the other local options just full when we looked.

Sunrise was good in some ways and not perfect in others. Communication among the staff could be improved. I think when dealing with folks with higher need levels, they didn't do a great job of developing and following a good plan. I think that taking what someone with memory issues says, at face value, is something they could work on. Once some of the issues were brought to their attention they did kind of step it up, and I think they did okay, with our more unique case, in terms of needs.

The facility is well-appointed, clean, friendly, and well-run. The memory care unit seemed very nice. The facility is on the property of Fair Oaks hospital which is why it's probably "higher end" and not comfortably in our price range.

This is truly the nicest facility in the area! Spacious rooms, lots of activities, attentive staff. This is one of the only places that doesn't have the residents sitting around staring at each other "waiting to die." Every time I walk in the residents are actively engaged in an activity. There are all different levels of ability and the activities are tailored to the individual abilities.

The only thing I can think of where Sunrise at Fair Oaks needs to improve is the quality of the food. It is nutritional, but they overcook the chicken, served under-cooked pork tenderloin, and other similar instances. Other than that everything has been great. The people there are friendly and the place is very homey and clean.

Met with Valerie Parker @ 9:45 on 8/27. Very pleasant and informative. Much larger facility but partioned memory care section on ground floor. The floor in the common kitchen area was sticky. Observed and interacted with numerous staff and residents as well as a couple activities. Not as impressive as the GF site visiited the day before. Courtyard much smaller and I believe the a la cart services could add up.

Beautiful settings; on Innova Fairfax grounds; very pleasant surrounding. Presentation - entrance - very inviting; beautiful entrance. Interior - just what we were looking for but have fear of renovations; carpet I had envisioned has recently been replaced with neutral beige carpet. It is nice but nothing special. This place is all about special and for the price it should have more elegance that neutral standard budget cutting shortcuts. Food - Top notch! Met Chef Eric; most food made from scratch; resident faces mostly with smiles and dinning room full. Nice to see. Veronica - reception - 1st impression - WONDERFUL! Valerie - informative, pleasant, appears to have priorities in order - residents vice corporation. Would like to learn more about upcoming renovations.

Nice place, but too far away from us

From what we have seen, and we've seen a number of assisted living facilities, it seems to be very clean, the staff that we've encountered appear to be very friendly. The care is very good, just because of my mother in law's condition or situation, we have hired supplementary care just because of her dementia and out wish to be able to maintain her independence for as long as we possibly can. I think they do very well in maintaining a comfortable environment for the individuals who are living there, it's an attractive place, I think it's well laid out. I do think however that their activities probably could be diversified a little. I would like to see more activities that engage in either recalling things from the past or historical facts or word games but kind of geared at a slightly less complex level than what they have now.

Out of all of the Sunrises this one stood out as the best. We didn't chose it because Tall Oaks was head and shoulders above it.

I've only been there once or twice, I live in New York and was taking care of my dad up here. My brother and sister in law have been taking care of the situation but from what I've seen in the beginning, overall, the cleanliness is good and the care has been pretty good. i'm maybe a little disappointed a little bit in the value that we're paying, but I'd say it's okay, they could be working a more with my dad. It's more expensive than what we were paying in New York but I would expect more person to person attention. Although he is concious and aware, he's becoming more depressed and not staying active so in the state of mind that he's in he doesn't want to particpate. From a room option, we were looking for bigger apartments as opposed to just a room and they had better options.

This was much more expensive for one, it was much more fancy, the interior design was pretty fancy, I mean, it was nice, but it was kind of fancy. The thing that struck me the most besides the additional cost was two [removed] the additional cost, each person was assigned a caregiver and this person was not a certified professional, just someone trained by Sunrise. The other thing, understanding of course that a lot fo their residents have memory issues, but there was a resident there when we were by the nurses station who was complaining he hadn't gotten his medications yet. I don't know if he had memory issues, but the woman who was giving us the tour was quite perturbed by that.

There are some glitches, however, all in all, I'm very happy. There are a few things that need to be improve on, one thing is the dining room. During meal time, some of the residents just scream out for no reason or get upset. Even though I know there is a reminiscence wing, he's the youngest one there, and he's not in that wing and that's what's so hard. He thinks he can have a conversation with them but he's can't, the residents themselves, they can be very nice but then they ignore him and me, it's the strangest thing but that's because I guess it's because they're older. He really loves the people that help him, the administration is pretty good, the director, I'd say he's wet behind the ears, but he listens to me, he just can't grasp the thing with the meal time, it's 6 steps forward, 3 steps backwards sometimes but overall we're very pleased and they really want to please him which is great.

I can tell you things are going good, they're really good people.

This was another high rise scenario and I believe they had really tiny rooms.

MOST LIKELY SECOND CHOICE - also liked the grounds, evidence of activities, staff, food.