Oakwood Senior Living

    3456 Delaware Ave, Kenmore, NY 14217
    • Assisted Living
    • Skilled Nursing

    Clean safe facility with improvements

    I toured the facility and was impressed: busy, active residents in a clean, safe setting with scheduled activities and well-used outdoor space. Staff were friendly and helpful, care excellent, meals homemade, Medicaid accepted, and building upgrades (new elevator, polished floors, fresh paint, newer furniture and planned dining/lounge remodels) are underway - I'll visit again under the new ownership.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Reviews

    2.63·(8)

    Overall rating

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

      3.0
    • Staff

      2.8
    • Meals

      2.5
    • Amenities

      2.3
    • Value

      2.6

    Pros

    • Recent capital improvements (elevator replacement, flooring polishing, painting)
    • Updated common-area furnishings and planned dining/lounge remodel
    • Friendly, helpful staff
    • Demonstrated quality clinical care
    • On-site home-cooked meals
    • Medicaid accepted
    • Active resident community and outdoor-space usage
    • Regularly scheduled activities
    • Provides all levels of care

    Cons

    • Inconsistent housekeeping and sanitation in resident rooms and hallways
    • Limited menu variety and dining options
    • Delays in staff responsiveness to call systems
    • Inconsistent personal-care and bathing schedules
    • Inadequate security and access-control measures
    • Allegations of theft and missing personal belongings
    • Weak property-control and laundry-tracking procedures
    • Aging building infrastructure with constrained room sizes and narrow corridors
    • Limited and repetitive activity programming
    • Economy-oriented operating model limiting amenities

    Summary of reviews

    Reviewer feedback reflects a mixed picture following a change in ownership. Many reviewers acknowledge visible capital investments: an elevator replacement, refreshed flooring and paint, newer common-area furniture, and plans to remodel the dining room and lounges. Those improvements have contributed to a perception of cleaner, more updated public areas and an overall more welcoming aesthetic in parts of the building. The community advertises and provides multiple levels of care and accepts Medicaid, which some families found important when considering placement.

    Care quality and staff performance are described inconsistently. Numerous accounts praise staff as friendly, helpful, and capable of providing excellent clinical care; other accounts raise concerns about responsiveness — particularly delays answering call buzzers and inconsistent bathing schedules. These contrasting impressions suggest variability in day-to-day staffing consistency and responsiveness rather than uniform performance. Communication and follow-through on resident requests are recurrent themes to verify during a visit.

    Dining and activities show a similar split. The facility provides home-cooked meals and a set of scheduled activities, and some reviewers noted an active resident community and regular use of outdoor space. Conversely, others described limited menu variety and activity programming that can feel repetitive or underdeveloped, with few off-site outings. Prospective families should ask about current menus, special-diet accommodations, and the activity calendar to assess fit with a resident’s interests.

    Operational and facility-level weaknesses appear repeatedly and merit attention. Several reviewers raised sanitation and housekeeping inconsistencies in resident rooms and certain hallways. There are also multiple comments about building constraints—small rooms, narrow corridors, a small elevator, and localized infrastructure issues such as subfloor work—consistent with an older, budget-oriented building. Security and property controls are another area of concern: reviewers described gaps in access control, perceived weak security-staff performance, missing personal items, and difficulties tracking laundry and resident belongings.

    Management has reportedly changed and some operational improvements are evident, but persistent issues remain that affect daily life for residents. Overall, the pattern is of a community in transition: visible capital investment and several positive caregiving experiences coexist with operational shortcomings in housekeeping, security, activity programming, and menu variety. Families and prospective residents should conduct an in-person visit, ask targeted questions about staffing levels, call-bell response times, laundry/property tracking, current renovation timelines, and security/access controls, and request recent activity and menu schedules to form a balanced assessment.

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    Location

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    Oakwood Senior Living is located at 3456 Delaware Ave, Kenmore, NY, 14217.

    About Oakwood Senior Living

    Oakwood Senior Living sits at 3456 Delaware Ave in Kenmore, New York, with a listed address also appearing as Buffalo, and offers assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care, and home care services all in one setting, which means families do have different options when a loved one needs more care, and with 148 licensed beds it's a fairly large place, so you'll find a mix of single bedrooms, studios, and semi-private rooms for folks with different needs or budgets, and they take Medicaid too, which is a help for many. Caregivers help residents with daily tasks like manual feeding, moving around, showering, toileting, and getting dressed, and there's medication help, diabetic and incontinence care, and support for people who don't get around by themselves, and they say they offer individual care plans since everyone's needs end up being different as the years go by. The staff helps with laundry and cleaning, and there's an onsite pharmacy, religious and devotional activities both on and off-site, and a steady level of supervision with secured doors, especially in the memory care area where those with dementia or Alzheimer's get special programs and 24-hour attention.

    The building has new owners and you'll see some improvements going on, like remodeling the dining and activity rooms, which is a good sign they're trying to keep up, and the staff has put some focus on better cleanliness and more ways for people to be involved. There's a big dining room for daily meals prepared by chefs and supervised by a dietitian, with a special dementia-friendly menu and an option for special diets, plus a bistro and spaces for private dining, and there's even a community kitchen if someone feels like baking, which often reminds people of home. Residents enjoy activities on site and out in the community, with arts and crafts, chapel services, and social events, and there are nice outdoor areas, landscaped gardens, patios, and a smoking room for those who still have that habit. The place provides free transportation, resident and guest parking, and an in-house laundry and dry-cleaning service, and wifi is available so people can stay connected to family.

    Oakwood offers respite care, so folks who need somewhere safe for a short stay after an illness or while family is away can get help with daily needs and medical care. Nurses look after residents 24 hours a day in the skilled nursing unit, handling things like wound care and rehab, and there are also staff to help with memory care and activities that spark old memories. Oakwood supports both English and other languages, which helps people feel at home, and they also try to make sure religious or spiritual needs are met by offering onsite and off-site devotional services. The community covers a wide range of services so people who want to keep as much independence as possible still have a safety net, with help always available for those who need more support, and they even offer financing advice to help families plan ahead.

    Oakwood Senior Living is inspected by groups like the Department of Aging or Veteran's Services and has a history of being open about their rules and performance. Community ratings average about 5.3 out of 10 based on web reviews, which puts them in a middle spot, neither at the top nor bottom, and like any large place, the experience can depend on who you know and which staff take care of you. The neighborhood around has parks, health facilities, and other city benefits, and there's information available on weather and crime for folks who like to know what's nearby. Most people who visit talk about a helpful and kind environment, and even though it's a bigger building, the staff and residents often bring some warmth to the halls. Photos of Oakwood Senior Living are often available on sites like Mirador, and their website gives more details for families looking to dig deeper.

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    Oakwood Senior Living offers assisted living and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 3456 Delaware Ave, Kenmore, NY 14217.

    No, Oakwood Senior 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.

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