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Santa Maria Terrace

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1405 E Main St, Santa Maria, CA 93454

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Santa Maria Terrace gets 5 stars for all. I did not even have to look at any other facilities as I liked this one so much. The staff is very helpful and nice. I think the best feature is that they let you have pets there. The price is great for the value.

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Santa Maria Terrace

Come make Santa Maria Terrace your new home in Santa Maria, California. They are proud to provide residents with assisted living and memory care services through thoughtful, compassionate, and dignified service. Living in Santa Maria, not only will you enjoy the California coastline, you will get to enjoy classic Santa Maria barbecue, go see Lawrence’s goldfinches in Preisker Park, and visit the Santa Maria Historical Society Museum.

Community Amenities and Services

Memory care staff are trained and ready to provide a variety of care services to residents, such as specialized memory care, diabetic care, ambulatory care, personal care, and medication management. A network of community health care providers are also available to provide additional care as needed.

At Santa Maria Terrace, meal time is one of the best times of day. They offer residents three chef-prepared meals in a restaurant style dining room. This is a great time to connect with other residents over delicious food that meets your nutritional needs. Dietary accommodations can be made as necessary.

In between meals, take advantage of spacious and thoughtfully designed indoor and outdoor common areas. Take a walk through landscaped gardens, play cards with other residents at the gazebo, tickle those ivories...

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Santa Maria Terrace
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1405 E Main St, Santa Maria, CA 93454

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Pet friendly

Yes

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Care types offered

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Amenities
at Santa Maria Terrace

Healthcare Services

  • Memory Care
  • Staffing & Ancillary Services
  • Incontinence Care
  • Medication Management
  • Diabetic Care
  • High Acuity Care
  • Non-Ambulatory Care

Meals & Dining

  • International Cuisine
  • Professional Chef
  • Room Service
  • Guest Meals
  • Meals Provided
  • Vegetarian
  • No Sugar
  • Low / No Sodium
  • Restaurant Style Dining

Room Amenities

  • Ground Floor Units
  • Wheelchair Accessible Showers
  • Handicap Accessible
  • Cable or Satellite TV
  • Kitchenette
  • Air Conditioned
  • Respite or Short Term Stays Offered
  • Bath Tubs
  • Wi-Fi/high-speed internet

Community Amenities

On-site dining options

  • Private Dining Room

Transportation & parking

  • Property Convenient to Public Transit
  • Transportation at Cost
  • Complimentary Transportation
  • Resident Parking Available
  • Uncovered Parking
  • Covered Parking

Pets

  • Cats Allowed
  • Weight Limit (lbs)
  • Dogs Allowed

Common areas

  • Library
  • Indoor Common Areas
  • TV Lounge
  • Outdoor Common Areas
  • Meeting Room
  • Barber Shop
  • Central Fireplace
  • Beauty Salon
  • Outside Patio

Recreational areas

  • Arts and Crafts Center
  • Game Room
  • Piano or Organ
  • Billiards Lounge

Services

  • Beautician
  • Laundry Service / Drycleaning
  • Housekeeping
  • Grocery Shopping and Errands

Languages spoken

  • Spanish
  • Filipino
  • English

Activities

  • Live Well Programs
  • Stretching Classes
  • Educational Speakers / Life Long Learning
  • Devotional Activities On-Site
  • Current Events Club
  • Karaoke
  • Christian Services
  • Yoga / Chair Yoga
  • Art Classes
  • Trivia Games
  • Community Service Programs
  • Activities Off-site
  • Birthday Parties
  • Live Musical Performances
  • Choir / Singing Club
  • Other Religious Services
  • Visiting Chaplain or Priest
  • BBQs or Picnics
  • Wine Tasting
  • Brain fitness / Dakim
  • Devotional Activities Offsite
  • Men's Club
  • Day Trips and Outings
  • Happy Hour
  • Catholic Services
  • Tai Chi
  • Holiday Parties
  • Dances
  • Bible Study Group
  • Activities On-site
  • Live Dance or Theater Performances
  • Wii Bowling

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for Santa Maria Terrace

8.2Review score19 reviews
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2 star
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A Place for Mom has scored Santa Maria Terrace with 8.2 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 4 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, Santa Maria Terrace has 19 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 3.6 out of 5.
Overall Rating
3.6
Cleanliness
3.8
Friendliness
4.1
Care Services
3.7
Staff
4.8
Meals & Dining
4.6
Activities
3.6
Value for Cost
3.7
A Place for Mom has scored Santa Maria Terrace with 8.2 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 4 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, Santa Maria Terrace has 19 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 3.6 out of 5.
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KM - Family/friend
Assisted Living
January 31, 2024
4.0
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Review for Santa Maria Terrace
We picked this community for the location (near family) and price.
Cleanliness
4
Friendliness
5
Staff
5
Meals & Dining
5
Activities
4
Value for Cost
5
Donna - Family/friend
Assisted Living
May 2, 2023
3.0
Verified Review
Nice Facility & Friendly Staff
My loved one has friendly people around her, both staff & residents. It's great (for the dementia patients) that they intermix the dementia residents with the independent living people. All of the activities are great varied and fun.They do not have too much experience with insulin-dependent diabetics. You have to manage that and keep on them. The staff is nice and most of the time they will take care of whatever we ask, but occasionally we have to do follow up, hold them accountable. Have to get them to take some responsibility.
Cleanliness
3
Friendliness
5
Care Services
4
Staff
4
Meals & Dining
4
Activities
4
Value for Cost
3
anonymous - Family/friend
Assisted Living
March 22, 2023
5.0
Verified Review
Santa Maria Terrace Review
Santa Maria Terrace gets 5 stars for all. I did not even have to look at any other facilities as I liked this one so much. The staff is very helpful and nice. I think the best feature is that they let you have pets there. The price is great for the value.
Cleanliness
5
Friendliness
5
Care Services
5
Staff
5
Meals & Dining
5
Activities
5
Value for Cost
5
Anonymous - Family/friend
Assisted Living
September 28, 2022
5.0
Verified Review
Positive Experience
They have met and exceeded, our expectations for my loved one. It's very clean, and they are friendly. We are pretty pleased. We picked this community because it was clean, and the closet to our budget. It's been a very good experience. In addition, the rooms are larger than most.
Cleanliness
4
Friendliness
5
Care Services
5
Staff
5
Meals & Dining
4
Value for Cost
4
Susanna W - Family/friend
Memory Care
November 19, 2021
5.0
Verified Review
It is a perfect place for multiple levels of care
Santa Maria Terrace has been a god-send to our family, it is an older hotel style so our loved one has his own apartment and we love that for him. The staff always have eyes on our loved ones, anytime there are questions concerns or updates they call us right away. Our loved one gets to eat in the dining hall which is like a restaurant style. Even during our loved ones most difficult nights, he was safe.
Cleanliness
5
Friendliness
5
Care Services
5
Staff
5
Meals & Dining
5
Activities
5
Value for Cost
5
anonymous - Family/friend
Memory Care
September 29, 2019
2.5
Hotel Design is Less Than Ideal for Assisted Living
My father lived here for about a year, from 2014 -2015. The staff overall was nice, the management was good, when not overwhelmed with elevators breaking down, and gas leaks that resulted in no hot water to the rooms for several days. And the elevator KEPT breaking down. This facility was built to be a hotel, and it was just that for many years. Improvements have been made but it still has a HOTEL LAYOUT. There is NO getting around the spaces that residents can get stuck in, hallways, alcoves, stairs. And there is not enough staff to deal with this. How can staff provide good care when the building is a deterrent? Hotels are designed to give folks privacy, assisted living sites should be designed in a way that staff have a easier time of keeping eyes out for disoriented or confused or lonely residents. If your parent, like my father, has dementia or develops dementia, even if Santa Maria Terrace continues to have a dementia waiver, you should look elsewhere. In fact, have a plan B for this. My father chose Santa Maria Terrace to save money and he did, but his quality of life would have been better in a community designed to work for residents and staff. The activities were few and far between but that could have changed.
Cleanliness
2.5
Friendliness
2.5
Value for Cost
2.5
Care Services
2.5
Activities
2.5
anonymous - Toured community
Memory Care
January 24, 2018
3.0
While we cannot pinpoint our disappointment, we feel it is not the place for our aunt. It felt less like 'home' and more like a seniorfacility
Cleanliness
3
Friendliness
3
Value for Cost
3
Care Services
3
Activities
3
jorine sweeney - Resident/client
Memory Care
October 17, 2017
1.0
WATCH WHAT YOUR IN FOR HERE
What ever they tell you about this place is a con!!!! the main elavator has been broke for over 4 months, SO NO EMT,S CAN GET A GURNEY UP TO FLOORS 2 THRU 4. SO IF YOU FALL AND HURT YOURSELF SERIOULY YOU ARE PUT IN A WHEELCHAIR TO BE TAKEN DOWNSTAIRS.THINK IF YOU BREAK A VERTEBRAE IN YOUR BACK.OR BREAK A HIP,HOW SAFE OF TRANSPORT THAT IS FOR YOUR LOVED ONE!!!! DON\T BELIEVE WHAT KIND OF CARE THERE TRY'N TO SELL YOU ITS LIKE A USED CAR SALESMAN! ITS [Removed]......."
Cleanliness
1
Friendliness
1
Value for Cost
1
Care Services
1
Activities
1
anonymous - Toured community
Memory Care
October 2, 2016
2.0
Was disappointed, the outside not maintained well , not welcoming. The inside was just ok. Not on my list of options for mom.
Cleanliness
2
Friendliness
2
Value for Cost
2
Care Services
2
Activities
2
Kirkpatrick Family - Family/friend
Memory Care
August 18, 2016
3.0
Do your research for Alzheimer's care levels
Care staff and facility not able to fully support our father's more advanced Alzheimer's levels of behavior, especially in the area of personalized interaction and activities. Wander Guard system did not work past the entrance to the garden allowing our father to leave the facility twice undetected via an unlocked gate. Care staff friendly and supportive, but unable to provide enough monitoring, even with the addition of "frequent checks" and escort services. Assessing exactly what is required for a resident with Alzheimer's can be difficult and touring, then choosing a facility is time consuming, but necessary in order to provide the best fit for the individual.
Cleanliness
3
Friendliness
3
Value for Cost
3
Care Services
3
Activities
3
anonymous - Resident/client
Memory Care
March 24, 2016
2.5
Verified Review
The staff is friendly. But the service and the food is not so good. There is a new chef. But when I ask for a drink or husband asks for ice cream, we never get it. I need to put on weight but they have been giving me the small portion meals, not regular portion. I haven't been able to do the activities yet.
Cleanliness
4
Friendliness
5
Value for Cost
2.5
Care Services
2.5
Activities
2.5
anonymous - Toured community
Memory Care
November 7, 2015
3.0
Verified Review
Three Stars
I guess that my loved one went to the Emergency Room and a taxi brought her back and she had to fill out paperwork that needed to get to the doctor, and it took a long time to get that sorted out for her.
Cleanliness
4
Friendliness
4
Value for Cost
3
Care Services
5
Activities
3
anonymous - Family/friend
Memory Care
August 17, 2015
5.0
Helpful
The employees at Santa Maria Terrace are very helpful. My father has Dementia and can be difficult at times. They are very patience with him and he is settling in as well as can be expected. This is the only one that I found that would allow him to have his dog with him, Labrador.
Cleanliness
5
Friendliness
5
Value for Cost
5
Care Services
5
Activities
5
anonymous - Family/friend
Memory Care
May 19, 2015
4.0
Verified Review
Very happy
My sister lives at the Santa Maria Terrace. We are very happy with the facility. Michelle Kiel did a great job. She was extremely helpful. I can't rate the care services or the activities because I was not there long enough. This is a nice place.
Cleanliness
4
Friendliness
5
Value for Cost
5
Care Services
4
Activities
4
Patricia Sarena - Toured community
Memory Care
April 20, 2015
5.0
Verified Review
Santa Maria Terrace is a great place...
My friend, Susan Proctor, asked me to help her find somewhere to live. She had been hospitalized and then placed in a facility she could not afford. I found your web site and was assisted by you. You recommended Santa Maria Terrace. It is a lovely place with lots of activities and great food. She seems very happy to live there. Thank you so much.
Cleanliness
5
Friendliness
5
Value for Cost
5
Care Services
5
Activities
5
Laura
Memory Care
June 19, 2014
5.0
Verified Review
Santa Maria Terrace is doing a great job.
Santa Maria Terrace is doing a great job. The staff is very friendly, and it's clean. They are enjoying the food, they feel like they are king and queen. The care is great, even if they accidentally push the button the staff is right there in an instant. Having a billing sheet that is easy to figure out, would be very helpful, it's very confusing, and stressful for the elderly couple. That is the only thing that could be better.
Cleanliness
5
Friendliness
5
Value for Cost
4
Care Services
5
Activities
5
Family Member - Family/friend
Memory Care
October 11, 2013
4.5
Verified Review
Nice, Large Rooms
They're doing some remodeling right now but they're doing a really good job of keeping dust down while they do that. We looked at 7 or 8 in the area. Price was part of the decision making process and it's a smaller facility. I don't think my father would do well with a real large community. We did respite as a trial. He stayed there for two weeks and when we came back he said that's where he wanted to stay. If they don't see you, they come check on you and get you out of your room. It used to be a Holiday Inn but they've done a really nice job of converting it. If you get a two room you have a sitting room and you ended up with two bathrooms because they took two motel rooms and opened up the doorway between them. Because it was a Holiday Inn, the rooms were decidedly different, much larger than all the other room that we were looking at.
Cleanliness
4.5
Friendliness
4.5
Value for Cost
4.5
Care Services
4.5
Activities
4.5
anonymous - Family/friend
Memory Care
May 20, 2013
3.5
Verified Review
My mom has just mov...
My mom has just moved in recently and we are pretty happy with Santa Maria Terrace. My mom enjoys the activities like playing dominos with the other residents; she goes down for coffee chat and all her meals. Having just moved she has not been able to take advantage of all they offer but the food is good and she seems to be adjusting well. I was really very impressed with Crystal at Santa Maria Terrace. She called me before our tour to discuss my mom and her needs and then during our tour she stayed with us over an hour while we ate lunch. I was very impressed by how warmly we were treated at Santa Maria. We toured a different property, Merrill Gardens, and did not receive the same attention or care. My only concern with Santa Maria is we are paying for my mom to receive 3 showers a week and she is not getting them. We are working with the staff to correct this issue which is not acceptable. My mom seems to be refusing her shower and the staff is allowing that, but hopefully that will not continue. Besides that issue we are happy with this place.
Cleanliness
5
Friendliness
5
Value for Cost
4
Care Services
2
Activities
4
A Place For Mom Customer - Toured community
Memory Care
December 15, 2012
3.0
Verified Review
Okay...but not sure about the 2 perso...
Okay...but not sure about the 2 person transfer problem. Might work.
Cleanliness
3
Friendliness
3
Value for Cost
3
Care Services
3
Activities
3
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