Windsor Gardens

    2535 West Pleasant Run, Lancaster, TX, 75146
    3.8 · 6 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    4.0

    Friendly staff, clean home, delays

    I'm grateful for the friendly, attentive and compassionate staff-my grandmother enjoys the food, the clean, homey rooms and garden, and I feel the place is safe with good monitoring and prompt hospital outreach. That said, staff are often busy: we've had long waits for help, delayed pain meds and slow social-worker communication, so a better staff-to-resident ratio is needed. Highly recommended overall with those caveats.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.83 · 6 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
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    5. 1
    • Care

      4.0
    • Staff

      3.8
    • Meals

      4.5
    • Amenities

      3.5
    • Value

      3.0

    Pros

    • Friendly, attentive, and compassionate staff
    • Dedicated and dependable caregivers
    • Strong resident advocacy and prompt hospital outreach
    • Welcoming, warm, homey atmosphere
    • Clean, well-maintained, odor-free facility
    • Pleasant garden and outdoor area
    • Comfortable rooms with daily housekeeping
    • Good monitoring and overall safety
    • Comforting, well-liked meals
    • Rehab and assisted living services available
    • Helpfulness and high recommendations from some families

    Cons

    • Delayed communication from social worker/management
    • Staff appear busy; inadequate staff-to-resident ratio
    • Long wait times for assistance
    • Poor responsiveness regarding medications and pain relief
    • Older unit/aging facility (though well maintained)
    • Limited use of facilities for residents with mobility issues

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the reviews is positive, with multiple reviewers emphasizing the quality of interpersonal care and the facility's clean, homey environment. Staff are repeatedly described as friendly, attentive, sincere, and compassionate; many reviews call the caregivers dedicated, dependable, and helpful. Several comments highlight strong advocacy on behalf of residents and prompt outreach to hospitals, which suggests the team takes residents' health events seriously and communicates with external providers when necessary. The facility appears to provide both rehab and assisted living services, and at least one reviewer explicitly recommends the place and praises the monitoring and job performance of staff.

    Care quality and staff interactions are the standout strengths. Reviewers use words like warm, loving, comforting, and welcoming to characterize daily interactions. Multiple notes about attentive staff, good monitoring, and compassionate care indicate that direct caregivers make residents feel safe and supported. The presence of staff who advocate for residents and who reach out promptly to hospitals adds to a perception of professional, responsive clinical oversight in many cases.

    However, a recurring concern centers on staffing levels and responsiveness. Several reviews note that staff are busy and that the staff-to-resident ratio could be improved. Reported consequences include long waits for help and at least one report of no timely response for pain medication. These comments indicate variability in responsiveness: while some reviews describe prompt and attentive care, others point to delays that materially affect resident comfort. In addition, there is a specific mention of delayed information from the social worker, which suggests occasional communication gaps between management/family and clinical/social staff.

    Facility and environment comments are largely favorable. The building is described as older but well kept — clean, neat, and odor-free — and daily housekeeping is noted. A garden area and a generally pleasant, homey atmosphere are frequently mentioned, and at least one reviewer specifically says their relative enjoys the food. These consistent notes about cleanliness, comfortable rooms, and a warm environment indicate that the physical plant and hospitality aspects meet expectations for many families.

    Dining and daily living receive positive mention: meals are characterized as comforting and enjoyed by residents, and housekeeping/cleaning is cited as being done daily. Rehabilitation and assisted-living services are available and appreciated, and monitoring for resident safety is highlighted in positive reviews.

    Notable patterns and concerns to watch: a few reviewers report negative experiences with responsiveness (especially for medication/pain relief) and communication (delayed social worker updates). Staffing pressure is a clear theme—staff are often described as busy—and this seems linked to the reported long waits for assistance. Another point raised is that some residents do not use certain facility amenities because they cannot walk, which may reflect either resident mobility limitations or a need for more proactive assistance/transport to shared spaces. Finally, the facility’s age is mentioned: reviewers generally say it is older but well maintained, so expectations about modern amenities should be tempered.

    In summary, Windsor Gardens appears to offer compassionate, person-centered care in a clean, welcoming setting, with many families praising the staff’s dedication, advocacy, and the facility’s safety and hygiene. The primary areas for improvement are staffing levels and timely responsiveness (including medication management and social-worker communications). For prospective residents and families, the facility’s strengths in warmth, cleanliness, and caregiving stand out, but it would be prudent to ask targeted questions about current staffing ratios, response-time protocols for calls and medications, and how the facility supports residents with limited mobility to use common amenities.

    Location

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    About Windsor Gardens

    Windsor Gardens sits within a Continuing Care Retirement Community and operates as a Skilled Nursing Facility under the Cantex Continuing Care Network, bringing together a wide range of health services in one place, and you know, the place has an A+ inspection grade with no severe deficiencies, so that says a lot about their safety and quality standards. The corporation runs for profit and has both a resident council and a family council, trying to involve everyone in decisions, and if you look at the services, you'll find home making, transportation-including medical rides-nutritional counseling, a pharmacy, and lab and diagnostic services, all right there at the facility. People can get long-term or short-term care, inpatient or outpatient rehab, post-acute support, hospice, respite care, and transitional care, plus there are special programs for cardiac, pulmonary, stroke, and post-surgical recovery, which means if you come in for a variety of reasons, they're equipped for that.

    There's a long list of therapies here, with physical, occupational, respiratory, speech, and cardiac therapy, and the staff helps with medication management, IV antibiotics, wound care, tracheotomy, and restorative nursing, with a nurse on duty part-time and 24-hour skilled nursing always available, so you can rest easier knowing a clinical professional will be around if you need help day or night. Windsor Gardens also makes room for comfort, offering private rooms, semi-private rooms, private baths and showers, electric beds, air conditioning, high-speed Wi-Fi, kitchenettes, cable TV, and telephones, and pets are welcome too, so you don't have to be apart from a furry friend. Most daily needs are handled for you, including housekeeping, laundry, and linen service, with a professional chef preparing individualized meals even for special diets like allergies or diabetes, and meals are served in a community dining room with all-day dining options, but you can have guest meals too if your family stops by.

    Residents find lots of ways to stay engaged with community-sponsored activities, residence-run groups, field trips, music programs, movie nights, and social clubs, plus there are fitness programs, a spa room, and outdoor common spaces for fresh air, walking, or gardening, so it's not all about medical care. If you need help getting around, transportation and parking are available, and they have an emergency alert system and daily wellness checks to watch over folks' safety. Windsor Gardens offers additional healthcare with pharmacy, laboratory, social services, hospice and palliative care, and telemedicine, all supported by an interdisciplinary team that creates a personalized care plan for each resident and helps plan for any future moves, making big changes a bit easier to handle. You'll find both English-speaking staff and options for religious services, field trips, and salon visits, and services from TheraCare Home Health and Elysian Hospice reach people in multiple Texas cities. The community covers a lot of ground, known for well-kept buildings, nice landscaping, and large common areas, with games, hobbies, activity rooms, library, computer room, and places to sit and visit-that's all backed up by a 150-bed capacity for skilled nursing and rehab.

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