Poorest of care & Only care about money. The Doctor over all the residents is incompetent & doesn’t care. The staff are lazy & don’t know what they are doing. My relative went in healthy but caught numerous infections that could kill. Terrible with small dirty rooms.

My mom is at the skilled nursing area of St. Martin's In the Pines. I like that it is a cottage type setting with only ten residents per floor. All the meals are cooked there, and they've got a large gathering room with reclining chairs, a fireplace, a huge kitchen, a dining room, and screened-in porch. It's like living in a home instead of being in a traditional nursing home. Thus far, the staff has been very caring. Their ratio is five patients to one care provider, plus they have an RN 24 hours a day, and so far, the care has been good. They've only been open to visitors for ten days now because of COVID, which is how most of the places are, and as far as cost, their price is in line with everybody else.

This a great place, like a big and friendly home. Residents have private rooms with big bathrooms, furniture, a beautiful common area with a fireplace, big tv, recliners, and dining room. It looks cozy. No bad smells at all! Very clean. Nursing station is right here, so a nurse can see residents very well. Also from a common room, you can enter a big screen porch with a beautiful view of the forest and a lake. There are a lot of different activities for residents almost for every day-music, meditation, games, exercises. Staffs are friendly and professional. Best place in Birmingham!

My father-in-law went to St. Martin’s for rehab for 60 days. He was in a simple, fine, double room. The food was very good. He fell a couple of times there. I would go by and shave him and take him out for fresh air. I had to meet with the directors of medical care, nursing, and physical therapy within a week of him being there just to get his promised care.

St. Martin’s-in-the-Pines provides everything for mom, like medical care, food, bathing, and has a doctor and nurses on-staff. I think it’s real good care, and we are very pleased. I like the setup of the cottages, which are more like homes. They have a great area with the kitchen open, and you can see every bedroom from that area. There’s 10 bedrooms per floor. They all can come out into the main living area and eat together in the dining area where they cook the meals.

St. Martin’s-in-the-Pines’ was good, the rooms were very nice, and the staff that we met was very nice as well. The apartments were two bedrooms, and they had a balcony -- very nice. We were happy with that place as well.

My father in law is a resident in the Alzthemiers unit there. He is very well taken care of there. They always call me when they have to change his meds or if anything changes. I have been very pleased with the facilities as well as the staff. I would highly recommend them to anyone.

St Martins has the newest nursing home in town. Their model is so different than most you see, The call it The Cottages, they ahve 2 three story buildings and each floor is a house for 10 residents. The food is even cooked there for the 10 seniors, they dont use those ugly hospital trays. This is the way nursing home care should be!

When it comes to St.Martin's of the pines I wish I could rate it 0 stars. My uncle had resided there for 3 months while battling lung cancer. I do have to say it looked nice, but that nice look covers up there poor service. When it comes to the nurses I dont know if they forged their nursing certificates or what. It seemed like theyjust didnt care at all. The young nurses were more interested in chatting then helping people. My uncle was in bed rest, and he was having trouble breathin we had pushed the nurse button and for 35 minutes nobody came. When we were searching for nurses nobody knew who the nurse was, and nobody helped. We were panicked our family member was sitting there turning blue and the other nurses nor us could figure out who was suppose to be there to help. If nobody else can see a problem with this they must be heartless. When we finally did find the nurse they acted as if there was nothing wrong with the fact that it took close to an hour for somebody to access the problem. Then the other nurses found our situation to be funny. All I have to say is I traveled to see my uncle from Indiana to Alabama, and I almost went to jail because of this incident. I hope that when I get older my kids will decide to do something else then put me in a place like that. Soon after my uncle had passed away, but it is a shame that he had to suffer in a place like that.