Hampton Fields Village

Excellent facility reasonably priced and they care about their residents. It is independent living but they have lots of additional services at reasonable cost that can be added and still be cheaper than an assisted living facility. If you're looking for a place for your loved one, definitely schedule a visit.

Friendly workers. Makes shopping a good place to go. Convenient location

Wonderful caring staff

Hampton Fields provides a lower level of care, but UPMC took a lot of pressure off of me. It is a good, well-run, and clean facility. They helped to make the difficult task of placing your loved one in assisted living a little bit easier.

My mother has been in Hampton Fields Village since May. It's a beautiful environment, a quiet neighborhood located next to a medical center, which I like because if she needs something, the center is next door. So she can go there if needed. The food there is outstanding. They do a nice job of modifying if somebody wants something different, without mushrooms, or without onions, or something like that, they meet with the chef and they talk with them overall. They also offer buffets for breakfast and supper. So if you don't like what's on the actual supper menu for the evening, you can maybe get something off of the buffet, or you can have both. My mom likes the food there. The residents are very nice. They're welcoming for the most part. They do have transportation to and from events. They have a lot going on in their calendar or their activities. They have a lot of outdoor seating, which is nice. A lot of options. They can go out the back and enjoy a gazebo, a nice landscaped area with flowers, and whatnot. They could sit in the front of the apartment building, or sit on the porch, and there are two different sections there. Plus, my mom has a little side porch near her apartment, so there's a lot of space outside where they can sit and enjoy the scenery outside. They do movie nights once a week. They make popcorn for the seniors. They go somewhere every Wednesday. They have a Wednesday outing, my mom's not able to participate in some things because she's a dialysis patient. But from what I hear, they're fun, and people there seem to enjoy those events. But they do things in-house also. They'll bring in entertainers. They bring in foot doctors and ear doctors into the residence so you can sign up and be seen by a doctor when they're visiting. They have cooking classes. They play bingo and pokeno and events like that, too. They've just had a really big event for Christmas in July. They did a full week of events. They have probably like 20 different types of rooms. But she is in her own room and the sizes of the rooms vary also depending on what you want, what type of room you want. She has a small kitchenette area. She does not have a stove, but they don't need it because they feed them every 4 hours. They do three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They call it dinner and supper. And they'll have ice cream day and things like that periodically for the seniors. She has her own bathroom. And it's a nice size bathroom. It's wheelchair accessible and handicapped accessible. They do have the life-alert watches that they wear. And then if she falls out of bed or something, it alerts the front desk and then they check on her. We've had times where because she's a dialysis patient, we've not been able to get a hold of our mom. She doesn't answer the phone. We'll call the front desk and say, Can you go down and check on her? And they'll go down and check on her for us and report back to us to let us know that she's okay just to make sure that something did happen after dialysis. My only negative so far is because she's a dialysis patient, a lot of their activities are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And I've asked the manager if they could start moving things around a little bit so my mom could enjoy some of the activities. And that's not happened a whole lot yet. So I would like to see that happen more, to be a little bit more flexible so she can enjoy the things that they have going on there. She kind of feels left out of some things, so I'm still working on that. And then there are times every once in a while where they're not able to take her to her appointments because they have these outings with the residents. And then there are times when we have to provide our own. They give her a full week's notice though, and they'll tell her, "we're not able to bring you home on Wednesday coming up on this day." And so they do give her enough notification. And then there have been times where we just got notice that she wasn't going to have a ride to or from this week on Wednesday. But then the driver went and talked to my mom today and I guess he worked it out. So he is going to take her. So it's nice that they do try, I guess it's just depending on the availability of a driver.