Meridian Hills Assisted Living

08/07/2008 Posted by lindacares61

I have to agree with yucky kitchen. I have worked at this place within this year. They do treat their elderly okay. But I do have to say that it was very unsanitary. Kitchen drawers, shelfs had grease and gross stuff on it. I do know that they have to let anyone see thier inspection reports. I suggest anyone who may want to put family thier, they should really investigate the DSHS reports and ask to go into the kitchen and look around. I do want to stick up for that former employee. The people who are in charge here don't treat thier employees very well. If you decied to work there, call Labor and Industries to see what the track recorded is. I can be their has been alot of complaints about how employees are treated by managment. I just hope with these reviews, that managment has taken care of how dirty the kitchen is or was. Hopefully that will change. To bad that managment wouldn't change. Guess you can't change people.

08/06/2008 Posted by Butterfly1980

Honestly, I have worked at Meridian Hill Assisted living for 4 months now. I love working there. The residence our what is important to us. I would refer Meridian Hills to anyone. My grandfather is in this state. I was checking into placing him meridian hills as well. So honestly this person that is saying this negative information about meridian hills not being clean. That statement is not true and the alligations she is making is definitely not true as well. The residents are the most important part of meridian hills and bring them into the situation was not right. That could cause stress on the residence. They love having a place they can call home. And someone coming in and interupting their place of residency is not something you do.

08/06/2008 Posted by grannyonamission

I have worked at Meridian Hills for 7 months and I have never found any problems with staff or cleanliness. The kitchen has been up to code ever since I have worked there. Yuky Kitchen is nothing more than an angry former employee. Yuky Kitchen has presented herself to the residents as a state worker and later on we have found out that she never worked for the state so this former employee does nothing but create havoc anywhere she goes apparently. If the kitchen became that bad then apparently she wasn't doing her job. Grant it that the kitchen will get messed up while the staff is working but every day it gets cleaned up. Who don't mess up their kitchen while they are cooking? Personally I think this former employee just needs to get a life instead of disrupting our elderly. Our elderly residents are very fagile and sensitive and she done nothing to help them. She caused alot of them to be very upset and if I am not mistaken, that is a form of abuse to the elderly. As far as her contacting our administrator, I don't know exactly what was said or done but I do know she did not go through the proper chanels. She went to the residents first and asked them to back her up on this. If she was in the right, why would she need to ask the residents to back her up? That is all I have to say about this person. I hope everyone who reads this will think about all the points that was made by other people who responded to this along with mine. Meridian Hills is a great place to be and I wouldn't have any doubts about placing any family member of mine here. Thanks all for your time.

Pros: Great place

08/03/2008 Posted by JoeKilkelly

The review listed above regarding the kitchen was written by a disgruntled employee who has made it a mission to disparage our community for reasons we cannot understand. Meridian Hills is in and has been in compliance with all State regulations relating to quality of our food service. Please come to Meridian Hills and see and experience for yourself the people and the quality of the services we deliver.

07/20/2008 Posted by jene1984

I would definately recommend someone living here I recently started, and out of the places I have work it has the friendliest and most reliable staff I have witnessed yet. The workers really care about the residents and their well being not just abou them making money and going home. I would definately recommend this assisted living facility and no the kitchen is not gross!!! thanks

Pros: care

07/12/2008 Posted by GrossKitchen

My first day working here was so gross I went home and call DSHS and any other phone number I could find Grease,food,hair,dirt, dander on all shelves, drawers and the refrigerator.One of the things that I did to try to fix the problem, besides reporting this to state agencies, newspapers, and TV stations, is I personally talked to the Administrator. She told me she was aware of the problem but has been busy with other parts of the building. She said that she would look into it., I did notice 2 days later that a new schedule was up and there was 1 person cleaning scheduled a week later. That night when we served the chicken salad. When I took a bite the chicken salad was warm.I found a thermometer to check the temperate. The salad was at 80 degrees. I notified and showed the nurse on duty to witness what the temperate said. I then notified the Administrator per phone. she was very upset when I told her that I had already called the State in reference to the gross kitchen and I was going to call again to report this warm food. she was upset very rude told me to find a new job and hung up on me.I called her back reminded her that she can't fire me because I am reporting stuff to the State. All I am saying is that if you are going to send your relatives here ask to look at the kitchen. Really inspect it if you get a chance and your relative already lives there maybe you should have meal in the dinning room with them to check it out. I talked to the inspector she is aware that they are cleaning the place up as fast as they can. I really hope this helps anyone who is going to live here