RYZE at Homewood

    19000 S Halsted St, Homewood, IL, 60430
    4.4 · 12 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    2.0

    Caring nurse but facility failing

    I'm incredibly grateful for Nurse Michelle - kind, dedicated, and attentive with excellent bedside manner who anticipated needs, gave prompt pain meds, and helped my dad recover. Unfortunately the facility itself fell short: poor meals, limited shower access, missing belongings, short-staffing, safety lapses (bedsores, falls, flies in the room), poor communication and missed transports. I felt lucky to have caregivers like Michelle, but management and safety issues need fixing before I could recommend this place.

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    4.42 · 12 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      4.3
    • Staff

      4.4
    • Meals

      1.0
    • Amenities

      4.4
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Exceptional customer service
    • Personalized attention to residents
    • Caring, attentive nurse (Nurse Michelle / Mishell)
    • Staff with excellent bedside manner
    • Staff who anticipate needs and are diligent
    • Compassionate and patient caregivers
    • Supportive care that aided faster recovery and motivation
    • Friendly, kind-hearted staff members
    • Prompt pain management
    • Staff that makes family members feel supported during hard times

    Cons

    • Allegations of mistreatment and neglect
    • Development of bed sores
    • Flies observed in resident rooms
    • Building water shut off incidents
    • Food trays being stacked and care lapses at mealtime
    • Residents unable to feed themselves or left unattended
    • Residents reportedly overly sedated or 'doped up' on meds
    • Falls leading to emergency room visits
    • Short-staffing concerns
    • Perception of money-focused management
    • Missing personal items (phone, other belongings)
    • Poor or unclear communication from staff/management
    • Confusion related to facility name change
    • Failure to transport residents to appointments
    • Poor meals and limited access to showers

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the reviews is mixed and polarized. A strong, recurring theme is high praise for individual caregiving staff—most notably a nurse repeatedly referred to as "Nurse Michelle" or "Mishell"—who is described in many reviews as attentive, compassionate, diligent, and instrumental in residents' recoveries. Multiple reviewers call out her bedside manner, prompt pain relief, personal attention, and the emotional support she provided to both residents and families. These positive comments suggest that when competent, committed caregivers are present, residents and families have very positive experiences.

    Counterbalancing those positive reports are multiple, serious concerns about care quality and facility operations. Several reviews allege neglectful treatment and safety failures, including the development of bed sores, residents being overly sedated on medications, and falls that resulted in emergency room visits. These are significant clinical and safety red flags that indicate inconsistent care practices or lapses in monitoring. Short-staffing is mentioned explicitly and is consistent with the types of safety incidents reported; inadequate staffing levels often contribute to missed care, delayed assistance with feeding and hygiene, and increased fall risk.

    Operational and management issues also appear frequently in the reviews. Families report poor communication from staff and management, missing personal belongings (including a phone), a perception that the facility is "money-focused," and failures to provide scheduled transportation to appointments. There is mention of a facility name change that seems to have caused confusion or dissatisfaction among reviewers. Such administrative problems compound clinical concerns because they erode trust and make coordination of care more difficult for families and outside providers.

    Facility, environment, and basic service concerns emerge in several summaries as well. Reports of flies in resident rooms and a water shut-off event point to environmental and maintenance shortcomings. Dining and hygiene issues are also noted — poor-quality meals, stacked food trays, residents unable to feed themselves or left without assistance, and limited access to showers — all of which affect resident dignity, nutrition, and overall quality of life. These items, together with unclear caregiver oversight, suggest inconsistent daily living support and lapses in routine care processes.

    A consistent pattern in the reviews is the coexistence of standout individual staff who provide excellent hands-on care and more systemic issues that put residents at risk or reduce quality of life. The repeated praise for a particular nurse indicates that the facility does have strong caregivers whose practices families value highly; however, the presence of multiple serious complaints suggests that these positive experiences are not uniformly available to all residents. The divergence between exceptional individual caregiving and reported systemic failures (staffing, communication, safety, environment) is the most notable overall theme.

    Recommendations based on these patterns: management should urgently investigate the safety-related allegations (bed sores, falls, medication practices), address staffing levels and scheduling to ensure adequate oversight, improve communication protocols with families, secure resident belongings and transport services, and remediate environmental issues (pest control, reliable utilities). At the same time, leadership should identify and support high-performing staff like the nurse many reviewers praised, using their methods and attitudes as models for training and morale-building. Addressing both the immediate safety concerns and the underlying operational shortcomings would help align the facility's many individual caregiving strengths with consistent, facility-wide quality and reliability.

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    About RYZE at Homewood

    RYZE at Homewood sits on 19000 S Halsted St in Homewood, IL, and offers several types of care like rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and memory care for people with memory loss, and what folks usually notice right away is how the staff, including Nurse Michelle, take time to really pay attention and help, showing lots of patience and understanding, which means residents see staff who try hard to anticipate needs and show a solid bedside manner, and when people are coming out of the hospital or surgery, there's a focus on making sure their move feels easy and their recovery stays smooth, with the clinical and therapy teams working to set up care plans that fit what each person needs, whether the stay is short-term or long-term. You'll find private and semi-private rooms, each with a private bathroom, air conditioning, cable TV, a kitchenette, telephone, and Wi-Fi, which makes things comfortable, and the place offers housekeeping, laundry, dry cleaning, and move-in help, all of which helps make life easier. There's a game room, movie theater, fitness room, arts and crafts room, library, and a spa/wellness area, plus outdoor spaces with gardens and walking paths if you want to get some fresh air, listen to music or maybe join in outdoor programs, and while residents can join activities every day-like movie nights and music or arts programs-there's also plenty of chances for community or family councils to speak up and help improve things. RYZE at Homewood has a kitchen where a professional chef makes meals with different diets in mind like allergies or diabetes, and meals come restaurant-style in a dining room so people can eat together. The center offers scheduled transportation and has parking for convenience, and people who need memory care or assistance with daily tasks like dressing, medication, or bathing get that support from a team on hand as much as 12-16 hours a day, with a call system always on for 24 hours, which gives families some peace of mind. The facility is a Continuing Care Retirement Community, so people can move between different types of care or housing without leaving the community, and this flexibility often helps make transitions easier over time. RYZE at Homewood accepts Medicaid and Medicare, which sometimes helps residents and their families afford care, and it's close to South Suburban Hospital and St James Medical Center Olympia Fields for extra medical needs. Ratings show people generally feel positive, with a current average of 4.4 stars, and the place stays open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., letting families visit and connect when they need to.

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