Cypress Creek Assisted Living

    831 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, MD 21146
    • Assisted Living

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    Reviews

    3.68·(25)

    Overall rating

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

      3.7
    • Staff

      3.6
    • Meals

      3.3
    • Amenities

      4.8
    • Value

      3.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, family-style caregiving
    • Attentive and responsive care staff
    • Knowledgeable and helpful front-desk and clinical team
    • High-quality meals and cafeteria service
    • Clean, renovated, well-maintained interiors
    • Waterfront views and attractive setting
    • Spacious apartments with private baths
    • Pet-friendly policies
    • Engaging activity programming
    • Strong housekeeping and maintenance
    • Visible owner and leadership involvement
    • Supportive end-of-life and personalized care

    Cons

    • Chronic understaffing and prolonged staff shifts
    • Medication-administration delays and inconsistencies
    • Staff conduct and professionalism
    • Insufficient supervisory support from management
    • Abrupt resident-discharge procedures
    • Weak personal-property and resident-funds safeguards
    • Pest-control concerns in some units
    • Inconsistent activity and outdoor-access scheduling
    • Inconsistent meal-service continuity
    • Staff turnover risk related to low caregiver compensation

    Summary of reviews

    Reviews present a mixed but consistent picture: many families praise the facility for compassionate, family-style caregiving, a helpful front-desk and clinical team, attractive waterfront grounds, and renovated, well-maintained apartments. Positive themes include attentive bedside staff, strong housekeeping, high-quality meals, engaging activities, pet-friendly policies, and visible owner involvement. Several accounts single out the facility’s ability to provide personalized and supportive end-of-life care.

    Care quality appears uneven. Numerous reviewers describe caring, responsive aides and med-techs who listen and provide individualized attention, while others describe operational gaps: chronic understaffing, prolonged shifts, and medication-administration delays. These operational weaknesses are associated with delayed responses to resident needs and occasional inconsistencies in daily care routines. Families should understand that direct caregiving quality may vary by shift and by unit.

    Staff and management feedback is mixed. Positive comments emphasize friendly, knowledgeable, and proactive staff and management presence. At the same time, there are substantive concerns about staff conduct, workplace professionalism, and supervisory support — including interpersonal conduct among staff and instances where leadership did not intervene effectively. These dynamics, combined with low caregiver compensation noted by reviewers, may contribute to turnover and variability in service continuity.

    Dining, activities, and amenities are generally seen as strengths, with several reviewers noting good cafeteria food, active programming, waterfront views, and comfortable, renovated interiors with new furniture. However, some families described interruptions to meal service and limited outdoor or activity access at times, so program scheduling and meal continuity may vary.

    Facility-level operational risks raised in reviews include medication-management inconsistencies, pest-control concerns in some units, unclear personal-property and resident-funds safeguards, and reports of abrupt resident-discharge practices. There are also isolated but serious allegations concerning financial handling and abrupt departures; prospective families may wish to treat those as high-priority topics to verify directly with administration and regulatory records.

    What to ask and verify: staffing ratios by shift and average staff tenure; formal medication-administration protocols and auditing; written policies for personal property and resident funds; pest-control history and remediation records; sample activity calendars and outdoor access procedures; and the facility’s resident-discharge and grievance-resolution policies. Checking state inspection reports and speaking with current families on different shifts can help clarify which experiences are most representative.

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    Location

    Cypress Creek Assisted Living is located at 831 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, MD, 21146.

    About Cypress Creek Assisted Living

    Cypress Creek Waterfront Senior Living sits right along the river in Severna Park, Maryland, and folks living there get to enjoy water views from every floor, with some apartments that come with balconies or patios so residents can relax and look out over Cypress Creek and the Magothy River, and with mature trees and walking paths, along with boat slips, a fishing pier, an ADA boat dock rail with electric hook-up, and a gazebo, people can enjoy the outdoors as much as they want. The caregivers provide heavy care to residents who need a lot of help, like transferring from a bed to a wheelchair, and there's always a nurse on duty, plus visiting doctors, a geriatric psychology team, and therapy services, so help and support are right there when needed. Residents get their meals prepared for them - there's an on-site chef and a restaurant-style menu, so no one has to worry about shopping or cooking, and a dessert cart rolls around with treats, plus there's an ice cream parlor and gourmet coffee, which makes snack time kind of special, and anyone with specific dietary needs can get meals that suit them. Folks who have diabetes can get help monitoring their blood sugar, though staff won't give insulin, and there's some incontinence care if residents can manage it themselves. Residents can get hospice care and respite care, and there's a high number of staff on hand all the time with awake night staff, and everyone responds quickly in emergencies because staff is there 24 hours a day and the building has a nurse call system and security cameras with 24-hour monitoring. Residents have the choice of studio, one-bedroom, or semi-private rooms, and every room and suite has a ceiling fan, along with cable TV and phone access, plus they all have access to common spaces that make it easy for people to socialize, like a movie theater, a piano bar with cocktails, a fitness room, Las Vegas style slot machines, a beauty salon, library, and a heated therapy pool. The staff hosts regular activities like a Friday night deck party, movement and social programs, and spiritual services each week, and residents can use video teleconferencing and wireless internet, so staying in touch with family's simple. The community's been open for over 25 years, and they've made senior comfort and safety a priority with features like a commercial backup generator, security porch and door alarms, invisible security fences, and individual room thermostats, and people can use concierge services or complimentary transportation as needed for appointments or errands. Both men and women aged 55 and older live here, and the team includes care managers and skilled nurses that provide hands-on help with daily activities like bathing, dressing, managing medicine, housekeeping, and laundry - pharmacy delivery comes right to the door, making things easier. The community encourages wellness and independence, and there's a real focus on matching care to each resident's needs, with a lot of ongoing support for families through regular updates and open communication, so families always feel informed. Cypress Creek Waterfront Senior Living is locally owned and operated, and it's won several awards for its caring staff and safe, friendly atmosphere, with residents and their families often sharing good feedback about the kind and joyful team, and all the staff aim to treat everyone with dignity and respect. Tours are available for anyone who wants to see what life's like in the community.

    People often ask...

    Cypress Creek Assisted Living offers assisted living.

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    The full address for this community is 831 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, MD 21146.

    No, Cypress Creek Assisted Living 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.

    Safety & Compliance

    In Maryland, the Department of Health's Office of Health Care Quality licenses assisted living programs and publishes the results of its surveys and complaint investigations.

    License number54
    StatusActive
    Facility typeAssisted Living Program
    Capacity62 residents
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