Lake Forest Park- Senior Living in Ft. Pierce

Cindy Akers

I to go into great detail right now. I just need to say that I'm so sorry I ever moved my mom to Lake Forest Park. I feel I have done her a huge Injustice at the end of her life at the age of 98

Kevin Fitzgerald

My parents lived in the villas at LFP for seven years. When my father died in January 2020 we moved my mom into the main building. The day that lockdown started, March 21, 2020 my mother fell in the upstairs hallway. If you’ve ever walked down the upstairs hallway, you would see how rough the floor is. Meaning the laminate is lifting and they have duct tape holding it down. We believe my mother fell because of that uneven floor. But there wouldn’t be any way to prove that, so we never pursued it. After that she was with me for months recuperating, then we brought her back in August 2020. It was still in lockdown, so there was no way for us to go inside and see how things were. The months that followed were a bit crazy. She would have box lunches on the weekends, and holidays because it was a skeleton crew. Then at one point, they didn’t even have a nurse on staff. I brought my mother home one evening right after 7 o’clock, and the facility should’ve been locked. I walked right in to an employee talking on the phone and didn’t even acknowledge us or who we were. I got my mother upstairs to her room and when I came downstairs the woman was still on the phone and still did not acknowledge me. In March of this year my mother had a medical issue and we decided she needed more care and would not get it at Lake Forest Park. I was told we had 30 days to get her items out of her room. On the 28th day I went back to check on a couple of things left in my mother’s room and to my surprise her room had already been rented and whatever she had left was put in the laundry room. The staff had known my parents, my mother for about nine years. Not once did the administration ask how my mother was. Only the Young ladies that delivered her her medication asked how my mom was. In her new facility, you are greeted with smiley faces, a genuine concern for the residence, and always getting a call back when you have called with a concern. We’re sad that we had mom stay there as long as she was. Please make sure you ask residents there if they like it. I live close by and would pop in pretty often. And everyone I would talk to you there was unhappy with the food, nothing to do, and their care. I hope this review helps anyone looking for a safe place for a family member.

Misty Webb

Had Tonya in the office return call and was very helpful and did explain everything to our family and made a big difference !

Suzanne Kelly

I'd rate this facility EVIL but rather I'd ask you to consider other options in a better location. Read the contract TWICE at least and do not sign an agreement not to sue. My mother was a resident here until her death in 2016. Caused by a fall In her room in the early morning -- her calls for help UNHEARD though she was not far from the so-called nurse's office. I wish I had taken legal action against this low-grade, sketchy, cheap facility and its cash grabbing executive staff. As with any Assisted Living Facility, I suggest caretakers of potential residents research this facility with state/government agencies that license such organizations. In Florida, search the organization's license on the AHCA website or call AHCA directly; review their 16-page report detailing why the facility lost its license after a surprise investigation on 7/6 - 7/7 2015. READ THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. Beware their contract versus their pitch, scrutinize the contract before you sign on, insist on the promised tour, eat the food and more than once, and ask about the medical competency WITHIN this facility. Ask about "personalized care" and don't ever move in before you talk to people who do. If you choose any facility, get your own doctors. LIVE NEARBY. AND deal with your own pharmacy to get meds. They keep ordering unnecessarily. I was shocked. Inquire about the real personal care your loved can RELY ON. Get everything in writing, including promises of physical therapy, personal care, CABLE TV, even how many trips residents really take to that "heated swimming pool." Ask about that waiting list for those one-bedroom apartments that don't exist as Lake Forest Park. Understand that such organizations as "A Place for Mom" aren't about you or your loved one: they endorse and rate facilities for their own profit of course. Hence my urgent call to all potential ALF residents to contact the state's elderly care agencies about the history of any facility. I have nightmares about my mother's life at Lake Forest Park, a property of Tarantino Senior Living. I'm thankful she is no longer there but horrified that she died by neglect in a facility that increased her monthly bill whenever they wanted over her 9-month stay. She lost 20 pounds during that time though she was robust on her entry there. She spent holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter with a boxed lunch dropped to her room -- no company, no activities, no staff on hand to stop by. How sad is that. Learned more than I wanted to know when a parent chose Lake Forest Park: a total horror story fueled by an upper management staff directed by the not-charming Tarentino whoever they are now. 2018 APR 20 Three years later to the day my mother fell in the night at Lake Forest, her screams for help unheard. Although she had a balance problem, and I was told she was checked on every two hours during the night, such was not the case. After her fall, in which her pelvis and legs were crushed, she lay in her own blood crying for help. None came. She died two days later after surgery and her last words to me -- I won't be going back there -- still haunt me. Never knew how much she hated that place. I deeply regret my decision to choose Lake Forest Park -- management people are in it for profit only -- i.e., Tarantino and staff. The executive staff on-site: under-educated, ignorant, dangerous people. I reached out to them with my concerns after her death and was gas-lighted by Tarantino management and the staff itself at the time. But they appear here on a review site just oh-so-sad, asking me to please talk to them about my issues. Is that kindness of heart or blatant hypocrisy? I hope you take advice before you make the mistakes I did.