Pricing ranges from
    $4,504 – 5,404/month

    Palouse Hills

    1401 Polk St, Moscow, ID 83843
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Hospice waiver
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Memory care community services

    • Dementia waiver
    • Mild cognitive impairment
    • Specialized memory care programming

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.80·(10)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.3
    • Staff

      4.0
    • Meals

      3.0
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      3.0

    Pros

    • Clean, well-maintained facility
    • Compassionate caregiving staff
    • Strong staff continuity and low turnover
    • Stable leadership with long-tenured manager
    • High staff-to-resident ratio
    • Active, engaging activities program
    • Supportive and resident-focused management
    • Volunteer involvement
    • Pleasant, cheerful community atmosphere
    • Recent facility renovations and updated appearance
    • Helpful and responsive staff
    • Appetizing meals
    • Family-recommended environment
    • Affordable pricing

    Cons

    • Insufficient licensed nursing coverage for medication management
    • Inadequate staff training and clinical oversight
    • Inconsistent meal quality
    • High cost and limited Medicare/insurance acceptance
    • Gaps in skin integrity and pressure-injury prevention
    • Allegations of financial exploitation and weak financial safeguards
    • Gaps in environmental safety and supervision

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews describe a community with many positive qualities alongside a set of important operational concerns. Positive comments focus on a clean, recently refreshed building, an upbeat community atmosphere, active programming, and a core staff that many families find compassionate and consistent. At the same time, reviewers raise clinical and safety issues that warrant careful inquiry by prospective families.

    Care quality and clinical oversight: Several families praised the day-to-day caregiving and described helpful, attentive staff. However, there are notable clinical concerns that emerge in the summaries. Reviewers identified gaps in nursing coverage for medication administration and questioned the depth of clinical training for some staff members. There are also concerns about skin integrity and pressure-injury prevention practices. These items suggest the facility may rely heavily on non-licensed personnel for certain clinical tasks; prospective residents should ask about nurse staffing ratios, medication-administration protocols, wound-prevention procedures, and staff training schedules.

    Staffing and management: Staffing continuity is a clear strength—many comments note low turnover, a long-tenured manager, and familiar, consistent caregivers. Volunteer involvement and a relatively high staff-to-resident ratio are also seen as positives. At the same time, reviewers mentioned both new and longstanding leadership, which may reflect recent administrative changes; families may wish to clarify current leadership structure and any transitional plans. Concerns about staff training and clinical oversight point to areas where management attention would be important.

    Dining and activities: The activities program is consistently described as engaging and well-attended; reviewers emphasize an active schedule and resident participation. Dining impressions are mixed: some reviewers found meals appealing and would recommend the facility, while others described disappointing food quality. Prospective families should request sample menus, observe mealtimes, and ask about dietary accommodations and kitchen oversight.

    Facilities, cost, and safety: The physical environment receives positive notes for cleanliness and recent updates. Cost perceptions are mixed—some reviewers call the facility affordable, while others describe it as very expensive and note that Medicare is not accepted. Safety-related concerns include comments about environmental safety and at least one serious allegation related to financial exploitation; that allegation suggests a need to review the facility's financial safeguards and resident-account protections. Prospective residents should review contract terms, billing procedures, and the facility's policies for handling resident funds and access to benefits.

    Recommendation and next steps: The community appears to offer a warm, active environment with many long-term staff and strong volunteer engagement, but the summaries surface operational issues—clinical oversight, medication management, training, and financial safeguards—that are significant. Families should tour the community, meet licensed nursing staff, review incident and staffing records, sample meals, and request written policies on wound care, medication administration, staff training, safety protocols, and financial protections before making a placement decision.

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    Location

    Palouse Hills is located at 1401 Polk St, Moscow, ID, 83843.

    About Palouse Hills

    Palouse Hills Assisted Living and Memory Care sits in the scenic hills of Moscow, Idaho at 1401 N Polk St and has room for up to 60 residents with studio and one-bedroom layouts, so residents can pick what fits their comfort and needs, and with hand-picked staff who know how to care for seniors, it's got somebody on-site 24 hours a day to help with everything from bathing, dressing, and medication management, to moving around or sorting out meals and laundry, with each resident getting help and care planned for their own situation and changes as they age or need more support. This facility focuses on assisted living for folks needing daily help but wanting to stay active and social, while its memory care section gives secure spaces and trained staff for people with dementia or Alzheimer's, and they even offer hospice options and help for chronic or incontinence needs as seniors age in place, all with a hospice and dementia care waiver for special support. The grounds have fire safety systems, wide doors, grab bars, wheelchair accessible showers and tubs, furnished rooms, and emergency alert systems, so it's a safer place for seniors, and the community backs this up with steady, long-serving staff and lots of volunteers, which means there are more hands to help and plenty of chances for socializing. Meals come through a dining room with professional chefs making nutritious meals, including gluten-free and diabetic diets, and people can get room service or all-day dining if they like eating on their own schedule; guest meals, snacks, and special diet choices are available too. The facility accepts long-term care insurance and offers board and care home services that suit small groups, with pricing estimates from $2,392 to $7,325 monthly, so families have a sense of what to expect when they're planning care.

    Residents get to use washers and dryers, free high-speed internet, cable TV, WiFi, and community spaces like a TV lounge, game room, fireplace, movie nights, and arts and crafts center, along with a gym/fitness center, salon and barber shop, housekeeping, dry cleaning, and maintenance work done by on-site staff. There are outdoor spaces such as patios, raised garden beds, and walking paths for outings or activities under the hills' open sky, and it's not hard for people or their guests to park on site, with transport services on hand to help with doctor visits or errands around town since the place is close to bus lines. For social and spiritual health, Palouse Hills runs social, educational, arts, and wellness activities, devotional services, and a schedule that keeps residents engaged and active, with support for people at all levels of mobility, whether they need a walker or wheelchair or just some help with standing and transfers. Maintenance, move-in help, and scheduling appointments are part of the daily service, and medication management is taken care of alongside work with healthcare providers. Palouse Hills holds a high rating in town, with an average review score of 8.4 out of 10, and with its strong focus on safety, daily support, and a caring community that includes both active seniors and those living with Alzheimer's or dementia, many families find it fits a range of needs for elders living in Moscow, Idaho.

    People often ask...

    Palouse Hills offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $4,504 per month.

    Palouse Hills offers assisted living, memory care, and board and care.

    There are 7 photos of Palouse Hills on Mirador.

    The full address for this community is 1401 Polk St, Moscow, ID 83843.

    No, Palouse Hills does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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