Barathaven Memory Care

For the past two years, I have been the Lifestyle Director (Activities) at Barathaven. I have to say that this is the greatest community if your loved one needs memory care. Our nursing and care staff is so skilled and compassionate, getting to know and love each resident as a person with specific needs. We have an excellent therapy team on site that keeps residents up and moving. Our maintenance and housekeeping team works harder than any other I've seen, keeping our community in tiptop shape. Our culinary team adds lots of variety and little touches that make the food so delicious. My activity department is well supported, giving us the ability to purchase any supplies we need, hire lots of great entertainers, throw multiple monthly parties/socials/happy hours, take the residents on weekly trips and lunch outings, and hire the best team of activity assistants who bring so much fun to our community. None of this is possible without a strong management team, which works so cohesively together to make Barathaven the phenomenal community it is. I truly love working with this talented group of memory care professionals. If any of my loved ones ever need memory care, I would not hesitate for a moment to bring them here to Barathaven.

Barathaven really surprised me with fantastic associates, person centered care and an amazing community that has really raised the bar for quality. I've been to dozens of memory care communities near St. Louis. Most, by design, receive residents that have declined out of their independant living counterpart. They result in small, understaffed wings that barely meet state guidelines for care and safety. Barathaven is designed, from the ground up, as a memory care community. It has fantastic, loving staff, and hands on events that take each resident, at their own level, into beautiful moments of joy and self expression. This is the kind of excellence that others should follow, and definitely the level of care that I would want for my loved ones.

After my wife passed away while in the care at Barathaven, I was charged for an additional 14 days of room rent plus the current level of care rate. We got ZERO in return. What an absurd corporate policy I found was in the contract I signed. A giant money grab to say the least. Read every word before signing anything.

Beautiful place, specializes in memory care, no smells, smaller and cozy community with large, secured outdoor areas.