I was very grateful for how efficiently we were able to get my mom settled on short notice. The staff has been great. Staff communicated could improve a bit. I do think communication could improve. I usually have to find the nurse etc to find out how things are going. Recently my mom fell again so back to hospital and rehab. We haven't gone back to morning star yet, but now I believe her care will need to be elevated, so we will see how that goes. I did feel like we would have heard from them more during her hospital and rehab stay. I had to let them know how she was doing.... Read more
Hospitable staff, modern amenities, and cozy community spaces will make you feel right at home at MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge in Peoria, Arizona. Explore 23,000 acres of nature at Lake Pleasant Regional Park, where you can walk on trails, camp, kayak, boat, fish, and even scuba dive. Enjoy museums, trails, shopping, and dining in Peoria, or familiarize yourself with MorningStar’s beautiful, landscaped campus.
Embark on a lifestyle journey of community, comfort, and wellness at MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge.
They offer assisted living, independent living, and memory care. Other health care services include ambulatory care, incontinence care, diabetic care, on-site hospice, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and more. Friendly staff is available to assist you with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, and grooming. Transportation is available to and from activities.
Exercise in the fitness center, then relax your muscles in the pool or jacuzzi. Enjoy arts and crafts, movies in the theater room, and games with friends. Stay motivated with stretching classes, yoga, and forever fit programing, and branch out with art classes, cooking, and wine tasting. Gather friends for karaoke night, Wii Bowling, live dance, musical, and theater performances, and more.
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Total monthly costs depend on room type, select services, and the level of care needed.
*Prices quoted are monthly rental charges and are provided by the communities themselves. Actual prices may differ due to one-time fees, timing and care services required. Speak with your Senior Living Advisor to learn more.
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I was very grateful for how efficiently we were able to get my mom settled on short notice. The staff has been great. Staff communicated could improve a bit. I do think communication could improve. I usually have to find the nurse etc to find out how things are going. Recently my mom fell again so back to hospital and rehab. We haven't gone back to morning star yet, but now I believe her care will need to be elevated, so we will see how that goes. I did feel like we would have heard from them more during her hospital and rehab stay. I had to let them know how she was doing.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
April 19, 2023Thank you for the praises extended. We regret reading of your disappointment in our communication and will strive to redouble our efforts. Thank you!
This place is amazing! My loved one LOVES their new apartment there and raves about the food. Everyone there including staff, residents, and visitors. Have recommended it several times already. Honestly from what I have seen they are doing it all really well. They have lots of activities that they publish to residents and have posted on several spots. The food is another. It is served in a dining area that is operated like a restaurant with nice linens and is ordered from a menu. Nothing is institutional many other places have.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
January 20, 2023How wonderful to hear such words of affirmation. Our great thanks for taking the time to pen your heart-warming experience at MorningStar.
We love all the windows and natural light. The staff is wonderful and we love that it is a faith based community. My brother is also in memory care and we recommended it to a friend.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
December 19, 2022We live for praises like these…ones that give testimony to our aspiration to serve with distinction for the sake of love. Thank you!
This was a beautiful and newer community. They wanted to place our loved one in memory care immediately and the family didn't fell that this is what our loved one would need. The off campus activities were limited to the number of spaces available in the van.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
October 3, 2022Thank you so much for stopping by! Please reach out with any further questions or needs.
So far things are going well and I am seeing some improvements with my dad. The staff and the residents are all very friendly. Every time I visit they have something going on activities wise. My dad does like the food that is served. I would most definitely recommend MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge to other families. It is a very well - managed facility.
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October 3, 2022Life at MorningStar is an invitation to “more”…more connection, more vibrancy, more love. Thank you for affirming our success in this.
I've already expressed with others how great MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge is! I love their caretakers, they make you feel like you're part of a family. They talk to their patients like they're part of that family too. I would describe their communication as average. It'd be nice if they mailed me the bill earlier in the month, right now I receive it two days before it's due. I realize most of the residents families live in Arizona and I don't. As far as the office staff, I wish they were more responsive and quicker to respond. I've left messages and had to call back the next day because I hadn't heard anything. As for the staff who takes care of them, they're great.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
September 21, 2022Thank you! You have testified to the love that we feel so deeply for our resident-seniors. We are building family for life, and your words of praise endorse that fact.
Morning Star was in my top 5, but when it got down to the dollars and cents a lot of undiscussed amenities made their way into the total rent. Too expensive.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
August 17, 2022We regret our rates did not accommodate your budget (though we do have a “financial concierge” that can help families with ways to finance retirement living). Please reach out with any further questions or needs. Thanks!
It was awesome a very beautiful place, it was like a 5 star hotel. It was the best out of all that we had seen overall. The room was very nice that she was in, she has passed now but she had a great experience in her time there.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
July 26, 2022Thank you so much for the kind words. We consider it a sacred honor to serve those who taught the rest of us how to live. And we are so sorry for your loss, may God heal you, strengthen you and bless you.
Our family had an in person tour and the tour lady [name removed] was just awesome and so lovely to speak with. However the community is quite large and spread out that our loved one had to take breaks during the tour so we just didn't think it would work out because of the size. This would of been our first choice, it was a great tour experience
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
June 2, 2022You have testified to the love we feel for our resident-seniors, and to our chief ambition to serve as a trusted resource. By your words of praise, we are encouraged to redouble our efforts in helping each senior find his or her best life.
The staff members have been so great to work with they really make it feel like home and they do their absolute best to keep our loved one comfortable and healthy. Our loved one absolutely loves the meals and dining service. We loved it right away it was a first great impression and a great choice. The community is beautiful and new and our loed one has able to bring their dog in finally!
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June 2, 2022So good of you to take the time to write these encouraging words. We consider it a sacred honor to serve those who taught the rest of us how to live.
I love that I have my own garage and washer and dryer, that is a huge plus. I do understand the struggles with the staffing shortages so it is not entirely their fault, but they could work to improve on the quality of the meals and the repetitiveness.
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March 31, 2022Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review! We appreciate your candid feedback as we strive for excellence at MorningStar.
They don't care. They are not in the business of caring. All they want is your $6500/month. They know that after all the emotional heart ache and all that you have gone through to find a care facility, you will most likely not go through the pain of moving your loved one out once they are there. [name removed], Regional VP of Sales is no better than a used car salesman. Director of Community Relations, [name removed] is a complete idiot who has no advanced formal education nor degree in adult aging. I received emails from her with no subject line or text in the message box after I made a complaint about her. I believe this was her way of attempting to intimidate and/or harass me. I made a complaint to the Corporate office, which is is no easy matter to contact them directly. It has been 2 years and I have still not heard back from them. They don't care because they are not in the business of caring.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
March 31, 2022It pains us to hear of the disappointment you experienced two years ago. In researching, we do not find record of your visiting our community then. But would appreciate the chance to make a fresh start. Executive Director, [name removed] would welcome an opportunity to connect; please reach out to her at: 623.500.4300. We wish you the best.
I would advise to check out a few more places for your loved one to find a community. The staff that are here some of them are excellent and some of them are not so good. They have very few specific activities for memory care and majority of the activities are for assisted living unit. Every now and they they will include the memory care unity but not often.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
March 14, 2022Thank you for your feedback and four-star review. We are eager to put our best foot forward so are disappointed that you thought Life Enrichment that day lacking. Please know we host regular events that include all lifestyle neighborhoods, as well as ones specific to the needs of each neighborhood. Luaus, live music, tempting buffets and weekly happy hours are just a few of the happenings that fill our lively calendar. Check out MorningStar at Golden Ridge’s Facebook page for a good representation of the variety of fun we have. And come by again sometime!
We absolutely would recommend the MorningStar Senior Living community to other families. We love living there and the other residents living there are awesome.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
March 14, 2022Building Family for Life is not just a turn-of-phrase. We are passionate about changing each other for the good, a mutual exchange of comfort and joy. We thank you for testifying to that fact.
We went with Morningstar because of the friendliness of the staff, the overall value, and it is just an outstanding place. The food is amazing, you get a full menu that has a lot of variety and they are chef prepared. I am picky and I thought it was restaurant quality food. I think it is a top notch facility and I would have no problem living there myself. It has a very warm, friendly, and inviting feel to it right when you walk in.
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March 1, 2022There is nothing like words of affirmation to spur us on toward even more love and goodness. Thank you for that gift.
This was a nice community.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
September 21, 2021Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review! We are thrilled you were able to experience the love beneath our roof.
We toured this community and the tour was very good. They answered all of our questions and were very informative. They were very accommodating and the staff was very helpful and friendly.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
September 7, 2021Thank you so much for the kind words. We never tire of hearing evidence that we have met and exceeded expectations.
The biggest thing to me is the staffing ratio of caregivers to residents. They're short on staff most of the time. I know they have resident vacancies, but they still need more appropriate staffing levels to care for the residents who are there. Also, they don't have a nurse there working every day, only five days a week, which concerns me a little bit.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
August 16, 2021Thank you for commending us in many ways. And we appreciate your candor about staffing. We are all feeling the frustrations and out-workings of the pandemic, including its continuing impact on the labor force. Nonetheless, MorningStar meets and often exceeds the staffing metrics set by our occupancy and level of care. Our nurses do work hard in service to our seniors, especially to accommodate the vacation of others, but our care coordinators are there to balance clinical leadership. We are excited to welcome new team members in housekeeping, dining, administration and community relations over the coming weeks.
We chose Morningstear because of the cleanliness, friendliness of staff members, and the level of care that they were able to provide. We looked at 8 or 9 places and it was actually not the most expensive yet we feel we got the best bang for the buck. My mother was here about 6 weeks and the 2 ladies that took care of her got very close to her and really cared for her. I would recommend to others looking.
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August 3, 2021Finding favor in the eyes of our residents and families is the ultimate litmus test. Of course it is! Here, in the cheery reports of contented lives and happy hearts does the MorningStar brand find its fullest measure.
We moved my mother into this facility thinking it was a great place. The sales person assured us that there would be wonderful activities and amenities but they do nothing activity wise for the residents. There was also an issue for me as I cannot wear a mask but was also assured that it was not a problem. That lasted one week and by the second week the sales person and receptionist tried to cover up that I was being let in mask free to the ED in charge who micro manages everyone and everything, and then I was forced to wear one. Since I can't wear one now I can't get in to see my mother. My mother is very unhappy there and can't wait to leave after only two weeks. We are moving her somewhere else. I would not recommend anyone to put their loved one in there.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
July 6, 2021Sheylyn, we deeply regret reading this assessment as it is the antithesis of our stated mission and impassioned calling to serve seniors. We have worked hard to meet your mother’s expectations and those of you and your brother. The mask mandate, so long in effect in Arizona, was difficult for all of us, our seniors most of all. And despite the many restrictions put upon us by the pandemic, life enrichment included, we are proud of the creative ways our team found to regularly engage, entertain and even safely socialize residents. We wish you and your family only the very best.
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To reach a resident at MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge call: (623) 500-4300
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