Horton's Personal Care Home LLC

    2465 Sunset Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212
    5.0 · 8 reviews
    • Assisted living
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    5.0

    Highly recommend small cozy respite

    I used this small, cozy residential home (max eight residents) for respite care and was exceptionally impressed. The owner - a nurse with 35 years' experience - is personally attentive, and the trained, certified, bonded staff are professional, caring, and patient; the warm, clean, safe, family-style atmosphere, healthy meals and noticeable health improvements make me highly recommend this facility and consider it for long-term care.

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    5.00 · 8 reviews

    Overall rating

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    5. 1
    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      4.5
    • Amenities

      5.0
    • Value

      5.0

    Pros

    • Professional, trained staff
    • Caring and patient caregivers
    • Nurse owner with 35 years of experience
    • Staff are certified and bonded
    • Small, cozy residential home
    • Facility accommodates up to eight residents
    • Suitable for respite care
    • Owner personally attentive
    • Warm, family-style atmosphere
    • Healthy, family-style meal plan
    • Compassionate, individualized care
    • Clean and safe environment
    • Reported health improvement among residents
    • Strong recommendations from reviewers

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the reviews is uniformly positive, with repeated emphasis on high-quality, compassionate, individualized care in a small, home-like setting. Reviewers consistently describe the staff as professional, caring, patient, and attentive. Multiple summaries single out the owner — a nurse with 35 years of experience — as personally involved and attentive, which appears to contribute strongly to trust and satisfaction. Staffing is characterized as trained, certified, and bonded, reinforcing perceptions of professionalism and reliability.

    Care quality emerges as the core strength. Reviews use terms such as outstanding, exceptionally great, kind, considerate, and compassionate when describing the caregiving. Individualized attention is noted repeatedly, and several reviewers say the care produced measurable or perceptible health improvements. The owner’s nursing background and direct involvement are mentioned as an important factor that likely supports clinical oversight and personalized care plans. Reviewers also indicate confidence in the staff’s concern for clients and in the overall standard of care.

    The facility itself is consistently described as a cozy, residential, family-style setting that accommodates up to eight residents. This small scale is framed positively: reviewers highlight a warm, homelike atmosphere, clean and safe environment, and a family-style dining experience. The meal program is repeatedly called out as healthy and satisfying, suggesting that nutrition and mealtime routines are strengths. The setting and service model are also noted as particularly well suited for respite care, and at least one reviewer indicated they would consider the facility for long-term placement in the future.

    Management and operations receive praise for hands-on leadership and visible attention from ownership. The owner’s clinical background (35 years as a nurse) is a recurrent point that reviewers associate with thoroughness and reliability. Staff traits — such as compassion, patience, and individualized focus — are echoed across summaries, reinforcing a coherent picture of a small but dedicated care team.

    Notable patterns and gaps: reviewers consistently recommend the facility and raise few if any criticisms; there are no explicit negative comments in the provided summaries. That consistency is itself notable and indicates a strong, positive reputation among the reviewers sampled. At the same time, because the reviews focus heavily on interpersonal care, environment, and meals, they do not provide much detail about certain operational aspects such as structured activities and therapies, medication management protocols, specialized medical services for complex conditions, pricing and contract terms, staff-to-resident ratios at different times, or availability/waitlist information. These omissions are not criticisms in the reviews themselves but are areas where prospective families may wish to ask specific questions.

    In summary, the aggregated reviews portray Horton's Personal Care Home LLC as a small, well-run residential care home with experienced clinical leadership and a compassionate, highly recommended staff. Strengths include individualized attention, a warm family-style atmosphere, healthy meals, cleanliness, and an owner who is directly involved in care. There are no explicit negative remarks in the summaries provided; however, prospective residents and families should note the limited scope of the reviews and follow up on operational details (activities, medical services, staffing patterns, and costs) that were not covered in these summaries to ensure the facility meets specific clinical and lifestyle needs.

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    About Horton's Personal Care Home LLC

    Horton's Personal Care Home LLC sits on Sunset Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has been offering assisted living and personal care services since 2005. The home has only eight beds, so things feel quiet and neighborly, and the house itself gives off a cozy, peaceful feeling you don't see in bigger places. The staff, managed by Mrs. Horton, brings nursing experience and compassion, focusing every day on safety, cleanliness, and making everyone feel like family, and there's always someone around Monday through Saturday. Residents get help with things like bathing, dressing, walking, incontinence, medication, and meals. Everyone eats healthy food served family-style, and the days are filled with activities like games, birthday parties, cookouts, fitness programs, and other events that let people talk, relax, and have fun together.

    Inside, there are common indoor and outdoor areas, a garden, computer center, Wi-Fi, TV, laundry and housekeeping services, and resident parking. The schedule includes day programs and memory care for those who need it, plus short-term respite care to give families a break. The location is close to parks, cafes, doctors, pharmacies, restaurants, hospitals, and transportation, so families find it easy to visit and residents stay connected to the neighborhood. Each resident gets daily care in a private, home-like environment, with wellness support and personal needs met around the clock. The staff aims to promote independence and social engagement while adjusting care to fit each person, always making sure everyone feels supported and well looked after. The home's high rating speaks to the staff's attention, tidiness, and care, and the focus remains on quality of life, comfort, and giving seniors a good place to live as they age.

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