Bosworth Gardens RCFE

    1340 Bosworth St cell:619-398-5034, El Cajon, CA, 92019
    4.3 · 3 reviews
    • Memory care
    AnonymousCurrent/former resident
    5.0

    Comfortable, caring staff; excellent care

    I feel comfortable and content here — the staff are friendly, knowledgeable and genuinely caring, treating everyone as special and easing the toughest times. The professional owner is insightful about residents' needs and is even expanding the facility; 24‑hour care is excellent. My only drawback: it’s cost‑prohibitive.

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    4.33 · 3 reviews

    Overall rating

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

      5.0
    • Staff

      4.7
    • Meals

      4.3
    • Amenities

      4.3
    • Value

      2.0

    Pros

    • Friendly staff
    • Knowledgeable staff
    • Caring staff
    • Professional owner and management
    • Staff attentive to residents' needs
    • Residents feel comforted and loved
    • 24-hour care availability
    • Personalized, special treatment of residents
    • Comfortable and content living environment
    • Pleasant place to live
    • Owner expanding facilities

    Cons

    • Cost prohibitive for some prospective residents

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the reviews is strongly positive, with repeated emphasis on the quality and character of the staff and management. Reviewers consistently describe staff as friendly, knowledgeable, and caring, and they highlight an atmosphere in which residents feel comforted, loved, and treated as individuals. The facility is portrayed as a pleasant, comfortable place to live where staff show insight into residents' needs and make families' and residents' toughest times easier.

    Care quality is a clear strength according to the reviews. The presence of 24-hour care is called out explicitly, and commenters note that residents are comfortable and content. Multiple reviewers emphasize that the staff provides emotional support in addition to daily care—residents are described as being comforted and loved, and staff are said to treat everyone as special. This suggests a model of care that is both attentive and person-centered, with staff who take time to understand and respond to individual needs.

    Staff and management receive particularly high marks. Descriptors such as wonderful, professional, caring, and knowledgeable recur across the summaries. The owner is singled out as professional and actively involved; reviews mention the owner expanding facilities, which indicates investment in growth or improvement. The combination of professional management and hands-on, compassionate staff appears to be a major contributor to the positive reputation reflected in the reviews.

    Facilities are described in generally favorable terms—the place is called pleasant and residents are characterized as comfortable and content. The mention of the owner expanding facilities is notable and may signal enhancements to capacity, amenities, or services; however, reviews do not provide specific details about what the expansion entails or which aspects of the physical plant have been improved.

    There is little to no information in these summaries about dining, activities, medical specialties, or other programmatic offerings. The reviews focus heavily on interpersonal care, atmosphere, and management, but do not mention meal quality, social or recreational programming, therapy services, or medical staffing beyond the availability of 24-hour care. That absence should be noted by readers who need details in those areas.

    The primary negative theme across the reviews is cost. Several reviewers characterize the facility as cost prohibitive, indicating that price may be a barrier for some prospective residents or families. No other consistent complaints appear in the summaries provided; there are no recurring concerns about cleanliness, safety, specific staff members, food, or activities in these reviews.

    In summary, Bosworth Gardens RCFE is portrayed as a warm, well-managed community with a strong emphasis on compassionate, personalized care and continuous staffing coverage. Management is seen as professional and proactive, as evidenced by facility expansion. The main downside reported is affordability, so prospective residents should weigh the high level of perceived care and personalization against cost considerations. Additionally, if detailed information about dining, activities, or specific medical services is important, interested parties should request those specifics directly, since the current reviews do not address them.

    Location

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    About Bosworth Gardens RCFE

    Bosworth Gardens RCFE sits on Bosworth Street in El Cajon and offers several types of care for older adults all in one community, so you'll find assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, board and care, and options for independent living with some nice convenience thrown in, which means folks can stay as needs change and don't have to move away if they start to need more support, and that's something families tend to like because there's a kind of comfort in continuity, especially once people settle in and get used to a place, and you notice right away that the setup's meant to feel homey and residential rather than like a big institution, with private and semi-private rooms-studios and one-bedroom layouts, too-and bathrooms inside each residence, which makes it feel more like a regular house, and folks have access to shared spaces like common areas and a few cafes scattered about, along with nice extras like parks, parking, and scheduled activities, including Christian services if that's important to you, and there's even transportation for errands or outings, so you don't get stuck inside if you'd rather be out and about some days, and when it comes to care, they make a point of setting up personalized plans for every resident, which changes as a person needs more or less help, whether that's getting dressed, making it to meals, or keeping track of medicines, and for those who have memory problems-maybe from Alzheimer's or other types of dementia-there's a secure memory care program with trained caregivers, memory-friendly activities, and safety features like Wander Guard, so people stay safe but still have chances to take part in meaningful things, and if someone's just had surgery or been in the hospital, there's skilled nursing with round-the-clock staff for things like wound care, rehabilitation, and managing complex medical needs, and staff are on hand for all kinds of high acuity, ambulatory, and incontinence needs, so even folks who can't get around so well or need extra help with personal care get what they need, and there's food service for regular meals, too, which matters to a lot of folks because meal prep gets harder as people get older, and since it's a board and care home, the staff aim for a small community feel with personalized attention, and families often comment on the friendly and caring team, which is managed by an owner who puts emphasis on understanding what brings comfort, so the atmosphere is gentle and often described as warm by those who live there and their relatives, and the location's fairly convenient, being close to doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, restaurants, and places of worship, which takes the stress out of getting to appointments or finding a bite to eat, and overall, Bosworth Gardens RCFE provides a variety of senior living choices in a neighborhood setting with steady support as folks age, and while no place is perfect, most reviews-about 4.3 out of 5-agree that the care meets expectations and the place brings some peace of mind for both residents and families.

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