First Love Personal Care Home 1 is a small assisted living facility in Augusta, Georgia, licensed for up to 6 residents at a time, and the owners, Carol and Sammie Lisenbee, have run this and other locations under the same name, with a focus on elderly and disabled residents who need help with things like bathing, dressing, and other personal care. The facility has services that cover daily living needs, such as help with incontinence, medication management, memory and dementia care, custom care plans, and rehabilitation services, and they provide meals, snacks between meals, housekeeping, private laundry, linen, and dry cleaning. Residents get access to activities, a library, exercise programs, scheduled events, transportation to appointments, entertainment rooms, and they let pets come too, with support for special dietary conditions like diabetes and hypertension, plus assistance with showeing, dressing, and transfers, plus amenities like a book room, movie nights, garden spaces, game rooms, and even things like a mobile hairdresser or barber, decks, porches, and community dining.
First Love Personal Care Home 1 also offers respite care and hospice care and gives 24-hour supervision, coordination with healthcare providers, help with diabetic management, health monitoring, and their staff can assist with non-medical care and companionship, including daily healthy meals, hygiene help, medication reminders, and daily activities, and the building includes safety features like grab bars, wheelchair access, emergency alert systems, and temperature control, although both inspections and legal investigations have found problems like high indoor heat-sometimes over 130 degrees inside-and prior equipment failures.
The home's history isn't simple: there have been major legal and safety issues here, including elder abuse and deaths from hyperthermia, and there've been investigations with law enforcement, inspections showing safety violations, unsuitable living conditions such as bedbug infestations, missing or incomplete safety repairs, and findings of untrained staff, missing disaster plans, lacking pest control, and other problems with health and licensing rules, which led to coordination with elder abuse justice programs and legal proceedings against the facility's owners and staff, including the collection and review of their employee records, bank receipts, and patient care documentation after search warrants were issued.
First Love Personal Care Home 1 provides shared apartment-style living, with bedrooms furnished for comfort, grab bars in bathrooms in some areas, and access to outside walking paths, but some inspections found missing features and a lack of compliance with required health and safety rules, so while the home offers many amenities for seniors and promises personalized care, families should pay special attention to its inspection and regulatory history as well as its services and features.
