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    $5,500/month

    Harvest Home Assisted Living

    2003 Apple Tree Rd, Howards Grove, WI, 53083
    4.3 · 18 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    AnonymousStaff member
    4.0

    Warm supportive staff, toxic management

    I love working here - a small, family-like place with wonderful coworkers, caring administration, joyful residents, great staff-to-resident ratio, flexible scheduling and real learning opportunities; the day-to-day is warm, supportive and uplifting. My caveat: ownership/upper management can be toxic, with threats and poor job security, so it's rewarding but not always stable.

    Pricing

    $5,500+/mo1 BedroomAssisted Living

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Hospice waiver
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Memory care community services

    • Dementia waiver
    • Mild cognitive impairment
    • Specialized memory care programming

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    4.33 · 18 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      4.6
    • Meals

      4.3
    • Amenities

      5.0
    • Value

      4.3

    Pros

    • Low staff-to-resident ratio
    • Residents treated as individuals, not numbers
    • Supportive and caring staff
    • Family-like, small facility atmosphere
    • High staff job satisfaction (reported by many)
    • Flexible scheduling and student-friendly shifts
    • Youth apprenticeship and training opportunities
    • Attentive administration and good communication (reported by many)
    • Joyful residents and active engagement in activities
    • Competitive pay (reported)
    • Safe, warm, and inviting environment
    • Ample/positive parking situation

    Cons

    • Reports of toxic or hostile management
    • Threats of firing and poor job security noted
    • Negative views of owners from some reviewers
    • Inconsistent experiences across staff (polarized feedback)
    • Small facility size could limit resources or services

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment: The reviews present a largely positive portrait of Harvest Home Assisted Living with a consistent emphasis on strong caregiver-resident relationships, a close-knit atmosphere, and a generally supportive workplace for many employees. Many summaries highlight an ideal staff-to-resident ratio, residents being treated as people rather than numbers, and an environment where residents appear joyful, engaged, and uplifted. At the same time there is a clear, recurring counterpoint: several reviews report serious problems with management or ownership, describing a toxic, hostile environment and threats to job security. The result is a mixed but principally favorable view of day-to-day care and community life, tempered by concerns about leadership stability and workplace consistency.

    Care quality and resident experience: Multiple reviewers emphasize that residents are well-cared-for and treated with dignity. Phrases such as residents being treated as individuals, joyful residents, laughter, and mood uplift recur. The small facility size is repeatedly framed positively — residents and staff often describe a family environment where people know each other, staff are friendly and caring, and residents feel at home. Activity involvement is mentioned, suggesting that residents have opportunities to participate in programs and social interaction. There is little direct comment about clinical care metrics or medical services in the summaries provided, but the strong emotional and social indicators (happy/blessed/precious residents, feeling like family) point to a high level of person-centered attention.

    Staff, workplace culture, and employment features: Many summaries portray Harvest Home as an excellent place to work: supportive workplace, best place I have ever worked, wonderful place to work, and strong job satisfaction. Practical employment benefits are noted, including flexible scheduling, accommodations for students, youth apprenticeships, and competitive pay. Reviewers also call out good communication and attentive administration. These comments suggest that, for a substantial number of employees, management and scheduling practices are accommodating and morale is high. However, this positive picture is not unanimous.

    Management, ownership, and conflict patterns: A prominent and important pattern is the polarized view of management and ownership. While some reviewers praise the administration as caring and well-managed, others explicitly describe toxic management, threats of firing, hostile work environments, and negative characterizations of owners. These are serious concerns because they speak to workplace safety, staff retention, and continuity of care. The contradiction indicates inconsistent experiences across staff or over time — some employees encounter supportive leadership while others experience adversarial interactions or instability. Prospective employees should probe management style and job security during interviews; prospective families should ask about staff turnover and management stability when assessing long-term continuity of care.

    Facilities, logistics, and ancillary details: The facility is described as safe, warm, and inviting, reinforcing the family-like impression. One minor but positive logistical note appears about the parking lot being ‘‘amazing,’’ implying accessible parking. There is limited specific feedback about dining, medical infrastructure, or physical amenities beyond the general warmth and inviting nature of the environment; similarly, no explicit complaints about cleanliness, safety incidents, or resident health outcomes appear in these summaries. The small size is largely portrayed as an asset for personalized care, though it may also imply fewer onsite resources compared with larger communities.

    Notable patterns and recommendations: The strongest and most consistent positives are person-centered care, close-knit community feel, flexible scheduling and training opportunities for staff, and a generally warm environment for residents. The most significant and recurring negatives are related to management/ownership and job security, creating a split in staff experiences. Because of this polarity, decision-makers should investigate current leadership practices and staff turnover trends: ask for references from current employees (especially nurse leads), inquire about turnover rates and grievance processes, and ask how scheduling and apprenticeships are currently implemented. For families, asking about examples of resident engagement, opportunities for family involvement, and continuity of caregivers will clarify whether the positive resident experience described is consistent and sustainable.

    Summary conclusion: Harvest Home Assisted Living appears to offer a highly personable, family-oriented environment with strong caregiving relationships, meaningful activities, and employee-friendly scheduling/training for many staff. However, the existence of repeated, serious accusations about toxic management and job insecurity suggests variability in leadership experience that could affect staff morale and continuity. Overall, the reviews point to an attractive, small-scale assisted living option that warrants a careful, targeted follow-up on management stability and employee relations before making employment or placement decisions.

    Location

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    About Harvest Home Assisted Living

    Harvest Home Assisted Living sits at the edge of Howards Grove, WI, on quiet Apple Tree Road, and the place has a way of feeling peaceful, with big private bedrooms, walk-in showers, and windows that look out over fields and wildlife, and some folks get to see sunrises and deer from their room if they're lucky, and you'll find four resident homes here: Cameo House, Courtland House, Bancroft House, and Braeburn House, all made for comfort with open-concept layouts, wide hallways, a cozy living room with a gas fireplace, a dining room where home-cooked meals get served, and spaces like a salon, a spa room with a walk-in tub, a laundry room, and even an activity room with a piano, plus there's an open patio where you can watch the birds or just get some fresh air. People living here usually end up enjoying a lot of different activities throughout the week, because there are walking clubs, exercises, dancing, brain fitness games, learning circles, current events discussions, music therapy, expressive arts, Montessori activities, and plenty of social times, and you'll often see folks joining field trips to Lake Michigan or outings into Sheboygan whenever they're interested and able. This place has a Christian community feel, with local clergy visiting, regular Bible study opportunities, and encouragement for spiritual welfare as well as physical and mental health, and every resident gets help tailored to their needs, with an individual care plan reviewed by a professional nurse, always someone on staff who knows about assisted living, and the whole team is around 24 hours a day, helping with dressing, bathing, medication, health monitoring, getting from room to room, or just simple things like laundry and housekeeping. The homes are built newly for accessibility and safety, with emergency alert systems, big parking lots for visitors, and a caregiver-to-resident ratio that's never more than one to four, which means residents usually get attention when they need it. Folks with memory trouble and dementia get support through up-to-date memory care practices, with activities and supervision that help them stay active, safe, and as independent as they're able, and these memory care services rely on best practices for cognitive needs, personal dignity, and security. Meals here come from local ingredients, cooked by a licensed dietician, so people can sit together and talk at the table, and those with dietary restrictions for things like diabetes or allergies can have their meals adjusted because the staff is ready for that, plus all-day dining is part of the schedule, so you don't have to eat at a certain time if you don't want. Residents here live in small, home-style settings with eight people per house, which makes the place feel more like a family home than a big institution, and each home grows community bonds among the seniors and caregivers. Social spaces, walking paths, community gardens, and country views help keep people active and involved, and for those who can't or don't want to get out, there's plenty happening indoors, from singing to art to educational discussions, always giving folks a chance to live with a sense of purpose and grace in a setting built to feel welcoming and safe. Since opening in 2006 as a single small facility and now expanded across several campuses in Wisconsin, Harvest Home Assisted Living has stayed focused on comfort, personalized care, and a supportive Christian setting where independence and individual needs come first, and the future could bring even more services or new spaces as there's still room to grow.

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