Advantage Assisted Living

    1729 Wellspring Ave SE, Rio Rancho, NM, 87124
    4.4 · 10 reviews
    • Assisted living
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    3.0

    Compassionate staff, safety, and meds

    I have mixed feelings. The facility is bright, clean and modern - most staff (especially Jayme and Nurse Christina) were loving, compassionate, and treated my parent like family; activities, food and hospice care were excellent and brought peace in the final weeks. However, I experienced serious issues: mishandled medications (including morphine), poor communication, lost belongings and stained pillows, safety oversights that led to a fall, and some untrained/unprofessional staff or management. It's expensive with extra fees, no 24-hour medical care or transportation, and misleading website info. I'm grateful for the caring team but cannot fully recommend until the safety and medication problems are fixed.

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    4.40 · 10 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      4.3
    • Staff

      4.4
    • Meals

      2.5
    • Amenities

      4.4
    • Value

      1.5

    Pros

    • Clean, bright, modern facility
    • Caring, loving, and gentle caregivers
    • Extraordinary and top-notch staff and managers
    • Compassionate end-of-life and hospice coordination
    • Timely hospice placement and involvement
    • Engaging activities enjoyed by residents
    • Good food and accommodation for special diets (vegetarian)
    • Staff treat residents like family and provide emotional support
    • Rehabilitation issues addressed and improved
    • Safe-feeling environment reported by several reviewers

    Cons

    • Medication mishandling and concerns about morphine administration
    • Safety lapses (e.g., fall related to chair without arms)
    • Poor communication and difficulty reaching nursing staff
    • Belongings lost or missing (including clothes); stained pillows reported
    • Reports of untrained staff and at least one unprofessional director
    • Expensive and perceived poor value by some families
    • Misinformation on website about available services
    • No 24-hour medical care on site
    • No transportation, pool, or mobile dentistry as advertised/expected
    • Extra charges for services that families may expect included

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment in the reviews is mixed but leans positive for day-to-day personal care and hospitality, while raising significant clinical, communication, and value concerns in a subset of accounts. Many reviewers consistently praise the facility's physical environment — calling it clean, bright, modern, and well-maintained — and emphasize that most caregivers are loving, gentle, and emotionally present. Multiple families express deep gratitude for compassionate, family-like treatment, especially during end-of-life care; names like Jayme and Christina are singled out for exemplary compassion and coordination with hospice. Several reviews characterize the care team and managers as extraordinary, noting that staff engaged residents in activities, provided good food (including accommodations for vegetarians), and addressed rehabilitation needs effectively. These comments portray a facility that can provide warmth, dignity, and strong interpersonal support for residents, and that in many cases helped families find peace during difficult transitions.

    However, a number of serious concerns appear across several reviews and should not be overlooked. There are multiple reports of medication mishandling and specific worries about morphine administration, which raise important clinical-safety red flags. Separate safety incidents are described (for example, a fall related to a chair without arms), and there are disturbing mentions of personal items going missing or being returned stained (including pillows with blood). Communication problems recur: some family members found the nurse difficult to reach or perceived overall poor communication from leadership. A few reviewers explicitly describe untrained staff and an unprofessional director, which contrasts sharply with the many positive comments about staff professionalism. These negative reports suggest variability in staff training, consistency of care, and operational oversight.

    Service offerings and transparency are another mixed area. Several reviewers noted that the website or marketing materials were misleading about available amenities and services. Reported omissions include a lack of 24-hour medical care, no transportation, no pool, and no onsite mobile dentistry — services some families expected but found absent. Additionally, some services come with extra fees, and at least one reviewer described the community as expensive and poor value. These factors point to the need for families to verify what is included in the base price and to obtain explicit written details about medical coverage, transportation, and other amenities before committing.

    Dining, activities, and resident engagement are consistently favorable in the reviews. Residents reportedly enjoy activities and the home atmosphere, and reviewers highlighted good food and staff responsiveness to dietary preferences. Rehabilitation follow-up and problem resolution were credited in placement cases where the staff intervened effectively. Management and front-line leadership receive mixed but often positive feedback: several reviews praise facility managers and specific staff for responsiveness and warmth, while a minority report unprofessional behavior at the director level. This suggests variability in leadership experience or turnover that could affect family perceptions.

    In summary, the predominant themes are strong interpersonal care, a clean and welcoming physical environment, and effective hospice and end-of-life support for many families — counterbalanced by important concerns about clinical safety, communication, lost belongings, transparency of services, and cost. Prospective families should weigh the consistently high marks for compassion and daily care against the serious negative incidents reported. Practical next steps before choosing this facility would include: asking for documentation of medication management policies and staff training, confirming 24/7 medical coverage and what clinical interventions are handled onsite versus by outside providers, requesting an itemized list of included services and extra fees, inquiring about protocols for resident safety and fall prevention (including furniture checks), and checking references from recent families specifically about possessions handling and communication responsiveness. These precautions will help determine whether the positive experiences reported are representative of current practice and whether the concerning reports have been addressed.

    Location

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    About Advantage Assisted Living

    Advantage Assisted Living sits on Wellspring Ave SE in the Rio Rancho Estates neighborhood, where you'll see a one-story building that gives off a real homestyle feel, with 30 beds in both private and semi-private room setups, so residents can choose what fits them best. The place lets you decorate your room with your own furniture and has an easy-to-find layout, including a large open dining space, living room area, and a courtyard for getting some fresh air, and even though there's a pet-friendly policy throughout the community, folks who move here can have their pets stay with them, which makes things like moving and settling in a bit more comfortable for most people. Advantage focuses mainly on assisted living services, with staff helping residents with things like bathing, dressing, and managing medication according to state rules, and there's a staff-to-resident ratio of about one to six, which means residents get a fair amount of attention. There's also care for folks who need help with wheelchairs, those with diabetes, incontinence, Alzheimer's, and even hospice, with healthcare staff and a consulting nurse around all day and night, plus a doctor and podiatrist on call if something urgent comes up, so families never really need to worry if help's on hand.

    You've got group activities like arts and crafts, music, games, outings, church, and picnics, which help keep people as social and active as they want to be, and they take church activities for all denominations, which is important to some people. They do a daycare and respite care too, so if a family just needs support for a stretch of hours or days, that's available. The kitchen provides full food service, making nutritious meals-especially for those with diabetic or restricted diets-planned by chefs and diet planners, and there's laundry service that's part of everyday living. Mobile dentistry visits make things a little easier so you're not having to travel for dental checkups, and the team here focuses on everyone's dignity and independence while still providing help where it's needed-kindness and joy are pretty consistent themes. Security's solid, with safe entryways and measures in place, and they allow visiting every day from seven in the morning to seven at night. Smoking's not allowed inside but there are spots outside for those who need it, so the air inside stays clean. If you're worried about healthcare, the building's close to urgent care centers and hospitals, and that's a relief for lots of families thinking about moving their loved ones in. Advantage Assisted Living's really just a steady, thoughtfully run place for folks who need some help each day but still want all the comforts and routines of home, and they plan to open a second building too, which just means there'll be more spaces for people who want a smaller, family feeling community.

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