Renton Adult Family Home

    13952 SE 159th Place, Renton, WA, 98058
    2.3 · 3 reviews
    • Memory care
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    1.0

    Understaffed unresponsive expensive poor care

    I placed my loved one here and wish I hadn't. Staff are often unresponsive, don't do advertised duties, and there are almost no activities - they're understaffed for high-needs or deep-dementia residents. Communication with family is poor, meals are low-quality/unclear, fees keep rising, caregivers reportedly have no health insurance, and corporate management breaks promises (doctor bait-and-switch). It's expensive and I do not recommend it.

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    Amenities

    2.33 · 3 reviews

    Overall rating

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    5. 1
    • Care

      1.3
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      1.0
    • Amenities

      2.3
    • Value

      1.5

    Pros

    • Individual caregivers described as great or amazing
    • Some caregivers provide dedicated, compassionate attention despite other issues

    Cons

    • Staff unresponsive at times
    • Staff not performing advertised duties
    • Insufficient staffing for high‑needs residents
    • Unable to handle deep dementia or advanced care needs
    • Poor communication with family members
    • Unclear and/or low‑quality meals
    • Meals sometimes difficult to understand (presentation/communication issues)
    • Rising monthly fees
    • Perception of bait‑and‑switch; promises not delivered
    • Corporate‑level management described as poor
    • No onsite doctor
    • No health insurance provided for staff
    • Expensive for the level of service
    • Some reviewers do not recommend the facility

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across these review summaries is mixed to negative, with a clear distinction between praise for individual caregivers and widespread concerns about systemic, administrative, and clinical shortcomings. The most consistent positive theme is that some direct care staff—individual caregivers—are described as "great" or "amazing," indicating that certain employees deliver compassionate, personal attention. However, this strengths-in-individuals pattern is overshadowed by numerous recurring complaints about responsiveness, scope of care, and management.

    Care quality and clinical capability: Multiple reviewers express that the facility is not sufficiently equipped to manage higher acuity residents. Specific concerns include insufficient staffing levels for residents with substantial needs and explicit statements that the home is not able to handle deep dementia. Reviewers also note the absence of an onsite doctor, which compounds worries about medical oversight for complex or rapidly changing conditions. While some caregivers appear skilled and caring, reviewers repeatedly indicate that overall clinical capability and staffing do not match advertised responsibilities, leading to unmet care needs.

    Staff behavior and communication: A frequent theme is poor responsiveness and weak communication with families. Reviews cite staff as "unresponsive" and indicate that family members struggle to get clear updates. Several reviews also claim staff are "not performing advertised duties," suggesting gaps between expectations set by the facility and day-to-day practices. This is reinforced by statements about promises not being delivered and a perceived bait‑and‑switch approach. Together, these points indicate that families may experience frustration obtaining reliable information and consistent performance from the team beyond those individual caregivers who are praised.

    Facilities, activities, and dining: Reviewers repeatedly mention a lack of resident activities, pointing to a potentially unstimulating environment for long‑term residents. Dining is another area of dissatisfaction: comments refer to unclear or low‑quality meals and note that meal information or presentation can be "hard to understand." These criticisms suggest problems both with food quality and with how meals/menus are communicated to residents and families.

    Management, policies, and cost: Administrative and corporate issues are a major negative theme. Corporate‑level management is described as poor, and there are repeated allegations of rising monthly fees and a bait‑and‑switch dynamic where promises made during intake are not kept. Several reviews call the facility "expensive," particularly given the perceived shortfalls in services. Additional operational concerns include lack of staff health insurance, which may affect staff retention and morale and indirectly affect care consistency.

    Patterns and overall impression: The dominant pattern is a split between compassionate individual caregivers and an organizational framework that fails to support consistent, high‑quality care for residents with complex needs. Families appear particularly concerned about transparency (promised services vs. delivered services), medical oversight, and whether the facility can safely manage residents with advanced dementia. The recurring nature of these complaints—staffing insufficiencies, communication breakdowns, rising fees, and unmet promises—suggests systemic issues rather than isolated incidents.

    Taken together, the reviews advise caution. If prospective families consider this facility, the key points to verify would include: demonstrated capacity to care for the specific level of need (especially dementia care), staff‑to‑resident ratios and coverage for higher‑needs shifts, specifics of medical oversight (doctor availability and emergency protocols), clarity and enforceability of contractual promises and fee schedules, and examples of daily activities and meal quality. The facility appears to have strong individual caregivers who may provide excellent one‑on‑one care, but multiple reviews indicate significant organizational and capability gaps that could materially affect the safety and satisfaction of higher‑need residents.

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    About Renton Adult Family Home

    Renton Adult Family Home sits in a quiet residential area near Fairwood Greens Golf Course in Fairwood, Washington, and has provided care since 2008 inside a house with six master suites, private baths, hardwood floors, and an elevator, plus an observation deck that looks out toward the Cascades and downtown Seattle, and with room for ten or fewer residents at any one time, it tries to create a comfortable, home-like setting for older adults who need anything from basic help to skilled care, and the staff stays on duty around the clock, including nurses and a doctor on call, so people get supervised, dependable, and trustworthy support with tasks like bathing, dressing, taking medicines, and more.

    This adult family home, operated by SAFESIDE Homes, LLC, supports people with dementia and memory loss and has a separate, secure memory care building with safety features like alarm bracelets for people who tend to wander, and they'll help folks who have more complicated physical or mental health needs, including diabetes care, incontinence care, Parkinson's care, behavioral supports for aggression or unusual behavior, care for those who can't walk, and transfer help with lifts, with regular visits from outside nurses, podiatrists, dentists, therapists, and even a chaplain when someone asks for one, and the home takes residents needing anything from short-term respite to hospice support.

    Residents have spacious studio rooms with furnished apartments, private ground floor units, wheelchair accessible showers, and their own bathrooms, and no smoking's allowed inside. Outdoor spaces are landscaped and include a big lot, patios, and a deck set up for watching the view, and there are indoor and outdoor common areas for group activities or just relaxing, plus cats under fifteen pounds can live here too. The kitchen prepares three balanced meals and snacks a day, with choices like vegetarian, vegan, organic, low or no sodium, and low or no sugar diets, considering medical or spiritual needs, and dining is restaurant-style with the option for room service or eating with others in the communal space.

    Renton Adult Family Home offers a variety of structured and informal activities, both onsite and offsite, like brain fitness programs, memory exercises, art and stretching classes, yoga, happy hour, musical and dance performances, educational speakers, devotional services, birthday parties, holiday parties, day trips, and community service or intergenerational events, and residents get high-speed internet, cable or satellite TV, beauty and barber services on call, housekeeping, laundry, and transportation services for an extra fee, plus resident parking and public transit nearby.

    This home's staff focus on creating a clean, safe, and friendly place where residents can feel at home and belong, and the team tries to support each person's needs and wishes, tailoring care for seniors with Alzheimer's, dementia, developmental disabilities, or mental health needs, helping with activities of daily living and encouraging people to join in meals and group activities if they want, and folks can come and go during visiting hours from 9:00am to 8:00pm, with the home's verified partner status meaning it meets licensing rules for adult family homes in King County. The home also uses a My Caring Plan scoring system for community reviews, with a web rating of 4.3 out of 10, and is designed for those who value 24-hour help in a small group, homelike environment, including those who need more advanced care.

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