Green Ridge Village
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- 210 Big Spring Road, Newville, PA 17241
- (717) 776-8200
- 4.4 ( 1 reviews )
- Assisted Living, Independent Living, Nursing Homes, and Continuing Care Communities
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About This Community
Refund Plans: 50% of Entrance Fee; Declining balance over 50 mos. (Price: 67% avg. of Entrance Fee). Assisted Living and Nursing Care on discounted Fee-for-Service basis.
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4.4
( 1 Reviews )
Reveiwer#DT0217
February 22, 2023
We visited Green Ridge Village. I liked that it is woodsy. It's continuing care, and we hope to go into independent living first in a cottage or duplex. They have a beautiful view of the woods. There are a lot of walking trails around a huge property, part of which they rent out to dairy cattle grazing. It's very pastoral, very nice.
The cottages go from one-bedroom one-bath to two-bedrooms, two-baths, some with another room on the back beyond the kitchen, dining room, and living area. You can have a larger room and pay a higher fee as entry fee, or you can also choose a lodge. They're quite fancy, quite nice. You can go in at almost any sort of independent living that you care about at this place, and you can find almost any level of amenities that you want in the house.
They supply appliances, it's electric. There's heat pump heating, and it's all paid for, the heat, the water, the trash. It's all included in your buy-in and your monthly fee. The meals aren't included, but you have a full kitchen in your cottage, or probably in your apartment. They have apartments. There's a meal plan. The basic plan is a couple hundred a month and it probably covers about half of your dinner meals. It's only one meal a day for independent living. I guess if you were in assisted living, you'd get all your meals, but you can expand the plan to make sure that it would cover more days. I think most people like the flexibility of being able to still dine out and not feel like you're wasting money if you don't care to eat there every day.
We absolutely would give it a five. Before, they would have to drag me from my home so I would never go to such a place, but this is so nice and so independent. It was just like changing or buying another house, except it will be in a more peaceful place than the one we own right now.
The person that took me around, couldn't have been more helpful, and more knowledgeable about how things were. She encourages us to call with any questions. She's answered every question and just couldn't have been nicer.
The tour was scheduled for 11:00 AM and it happened on a day when they offer a brunch where a chef cooks omelets to your taste and all that stuff. So, we went to the dining room, and we saw an old friend of ours there. The person giving us the tour said, "Oh, go ahead and have lunch with her." It was on them, so we got it. There just couldn't have been anything nicer for us.
They gave us what we wanted, and it was well prepared. We know some ladies there, and they're in their eighties and nineties. People that age aren't known for being anything but crotchety, and they all just love it there.
What I'm trying to convey here is, I never wanted to move from my home now. It's only six years old, and we built it to our specifications. I thought I would live here forever, and I thought my husband was crazy for wanting to go to continuing care when we were both still active and young. But this just looks like a nice thing to do to get to a peaceful place where we don't have to worry about our finances for the rest of our life or what will happen if we have to go into care.
It's just something about the woods for me that's very welcoming. They have rules; there are no firearms and no smoking. It just seems like a peaceful place where you can feel safe.