Here, you'll always have support in staying safe.

In March, we took early and aggressive steps in order to safeguard the health of our residents, including: 

• Screening all team members and essential visitors upon entry.
• Canceling all group events.
• Switching to in-home dining.
• Heightening our infection control protocols.
• Cleaning common areas even more frequently.
• Ensuring ample supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Requiring physical distancing and that masks be worn on campus.
• Providing personal shopping and errand services.

Additionally, during these past few months, we have followed public health requirements to restrict visitors. As visitors are allowed back on campus, we remain vigilant about screening, mask usage, hand sanitizing, physical distancing and limiting gathering sizes.

Lastly, our clinical teams have been available to respond around-the-clock in the event that someone has felt ill.

For the most up-to-date information, please visit our newsroom.

Moving forward, we will be allowing more visitation on campus and gradually reinstating communal activities such as dining together, group activities and classes. All of this will be done in close cooperation with state and local public health officials. Please keep in mind that we may have to revert to temporarily restricting certain amenities and visitation on campus depending on several factors, including the number of positive cases in the local area and possible cases within our community.

Since June, with the greater availability of testing, we have started widespread testing of residents and team members. Regular testing will be a key strategy moving forward so that we can isolate any positive cases and mitigate the spread of the virus.

For the most up-to-date information, please visit our newsroom.

Stay-at-home orders have been hard for everyone, no matter where you live. And like everyone else, our residents have had to deal with much less social contact. But the opinion expressed by most of our residents is that they have experienced less social isolation here than they might have in their prior homes.

For starters, spirits were buoyed by our Life Enrichment team members working hard to develop new, virtual ways to stay engaged. 

In addition, our residents found camaraderie in living among close friends and neighbors during a time like this. The sense of connectedness on our campus prevailed as friends stayed in touch via phone and email; waved, smiled and chatted from a distance on campus; and saw one another during Zoom events.

If I was still living in my former home, I would be really isolated. I need to know there are people around. Anytime I go to my garden box, I see 3-4 people to wave hello to. And there’s a group of us who meet, at a distance and following all the guidelines, on a large patio just to laugh and socialize and talk about something other than the virus.”
— Judy Lovell, HumanGood resident

The family atmosphere and the feeling of connection continue here even during COVID-19.”
— Boyd Cline, HumanGood resident

It is possible to have the support, camaraderie and peace of mind that community living provides while also living in an environment designed to keep residents safe.

Here are two major advantages of senior living communities.

1. Support in staying safe

The dominant sentiment reported by our residents is that they have never felt alone in having to navigate this crisis. Rather, they have had the support of team members working to provide them with everything they need in order to stay safe and healthy in their homes. 

And there has been comfort in knowing that those team members are screened daily for symptoms and are well-trained in infection control. There has been no worry about going grocery shopping, letting unscreened people into your home for upkeep or maintenance or getting meals delivered by someone you don’t know.

In my prior home, I would have felt way more isolated. Here, any need that we have—from shopping to medical help to fixing the air conditioning—is just a phone call away.” 
— Cathy Self, HumanGood resident

2. Less social isolation 

The other opinion expressed by our residents is that they have experienced less social isolation than they might have in their prior homes.

Of course, stay-at-home orders have been hard for everyone, no matter where you live. But here, spirits were buoyed both by our Life Enrichment team members working hard to develop new, virtual ways to stay engaged and by the camaraderie of the residents themselves.

There’s a sense of solidarity. There’s a warmth and companionship from the other residents. We feel like we aren’t isolated.”
— Julia Springer, HumanGood resident

Piedmont Gardens is not a nursing home. We are a Life Plan Community, where the majority of our residents live independently. We offer—on one campus—both independent living residences and any type of care that may be needed (e.g., assisted living, memory care or skilled nursing care). 

With our high-quality protocols, training procedures and dedicated team members, we’re continuing to do everything we can to ensure the safety of our residents.

Yes, we are showing areas of our campuses as public health restrictions allow, and we are currently accepting move-ins. Custom-made video tours are also available. Please contact a sales counselor for more information.