My husband went to Regency Retirement Village of Tuscaloosa for a few days, but he's diabetic and has trouble with his sugar. I think he didn't like being there, and so his sugar ran high the whole time he was there. He was in the memory care part. It was all right. Our issues were with his blood sugar. I did see them eating some of their meals and they seemed to be very good. Well, they were trying to say that my husband was drinking soft drinks and that was running sugar, which I don't believe at all, so I don't think they were knowledgeable about that. There was a very nice lady that showed us around. His room was nice; it was just a bedroom and a bath. It was about comparable to any of the others. I didn't see any issues with maintenance. The thing about Regency that was kind of odd is that their memory care is on the second floor, and you have to have a code to get on the elevator. It was just a little unusual. The dining room was not particularly fancy, but very nice and clean. They have a bus, and they would assist the residents in getting to doctor's appointments.

My mother-in-law was at Regency Retirement Village - Tuscaloosa for a little while and we took her out of there. The memory care upstairs was horrible. It's unbelievable how bad it is. She was placed in the memory care section and she was assigned a roommate who constantly packed up her clothes and my mother-in-law's clothes and told them that they were going home. This was constant two to three times a day, and they wouldn't change roommates or take that other roommate out. It made my mother-in-law very upset constantly because she thought she was going home. The staff all sat around talking to each other in the daycare area. She was in the hospital with C. diff twice. I tried to explain to them that C. diff when it contaminates the mattress, you will constantly get it back, and they wouldn't listen to me about that. We just had to take her out of there the second time she got home from the hospital. She stayed in the memory care section for a few months. The people in the assisted living downstairs looked clean and happy, but upstairs I wouldn't say they were clean and happy at all. The building looked nice from the outside. They were doing a few things upstairs, but not much. They mostly just sat around upstairs in the dayroom, and they would give them something to drink and snack on every once in a while. Their food was served on school trays and they would have food put on around each little section of it, but it looked OK to me. We were not getting what we paid for.