Silverado Escondido​

Since my mother moved into the community of Silverado she has felt safe, engaged, cared for and respected; both by the staff, caregivers and residents. I could never have imagined that she would accept a facility living arrangement. She has, and she is enjoying it very, very much.

My sister has been lovingly and skillfully attended to by the entire staff at Silverado Escondido, over the many years she has been a resident. The care with which she has been given has been a blessing, and I cannot praise her caregivers enough. And they treat every resident with the same respect and care. This is a recent photo of her enjoying the delightful backyard.

All staff are Engaging, friendly, smiling, focuses on each resident, courteous, and heavenly sent. This place is so fun. I love visiting. I love the dogs here as well V suffered from being anxious, fearful, lonely, aches and pains, depressed, never wanting to be home. She had lost her husband and then eight years later, lost her dog. Silverado Escondido addressed each of her issues and so much more. They give her showers and do her nails and comb her hair, etc. She sees lots of people all day long and busy with all the activities that she loves. She is now living her best life at this 98. I have brought her home to visit and then she’s ready to go back. This is just a perfect home and way of life. Thank you for Silverado Escondido.

The staff and administration at Silverado has provided excellent care for my mom the past five years. They all work so diligently to ensure that the environment is nurturing and stimulating. At 100 years old mom still participates in exercise class, cooking, and flower arranging. We are so grateful for Silverado’s support.

Silverado Memory Care Escondido is AMAZING!! There is no better place A family friend that was on his own was diagnosed with Vascular Dementia. We began a very long journey down a path we had no experience in. We first moved him into assisted living facilities. He was in assisted living for 2 months and they said he needed to go to memory care. The assisted living place he was in was nice so we moved him into their memory care. Needless to say the memory care was not treating him well. We noticed he felt very agitated and at this point in his disease he was nonverbal so he could not tell us what was wrong. He was a wonderer would walk all the time being it was a small area he kept trying to escape. We started noticing how others were being cared for and knew we had to get him out of there and find a place where he would be well cared for and would be happy. We researched and made a list of highly rated memory care facilities and we began a 2 week tour of many memory care facilities in Escondido, Vista and Rancho Bernardo. We had a list of things we were looking for to find to right facility. 1. Resident to staff ratio by California law it’s a max of 5 to 1 we both agreed was way too many for even a highly trained nurse. 2. The attitude of the staff towards the residents 3. Affordability must stay on his budget 4. Cleanliness of the facility. How does it smell? Are the residents clean? 5. Do the residents look happy, is there activities for them to do. 6. Distance from our house being we will be visiting regularly. 7. Reading reviews on line on many different sources As the tours went on we came to understand there is allot of large companies that own multiple facilities and are bought and sold sometimes yearly. It is big business and with that profits can easily become the priority over patient care. You could tell corners were cut, understaffed, and untrained. High employee turnover is a major red flag. Because Silverado had the highest price they were the last one we toured mostly out of curiosity. As soon as we walked in the front door we could tell it was different. Every business has a culture and you feel it when you enter. Very welcoming staff. Many of the staff members have been there over 20 years. If you retain good people it means they are happy and will go the extra mile for the residents. Silverado is clean, organized, daily managers meeting as a former business owner I know how important this is. The lowest resident to caregiver ratio. All others were 5 to 1 California maximum. He liked to walk all the time. He was able to walk all over the facility and walk around outside in the beautiful gardens with paths, setting areas, fruit tree. It was so peaceful and relaxing. The food is really good and presented to the residents like they were going to a very nice restaurant to eat. Fast forward over a year later and hundreds of visits, nothing has changed. Same staff, same clean caring place. And a feeling when you leave from a visit every time that we made the right choice on his care.