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Mercy Retirement and Care Center
3431 Foothill Boulevard, Oakland, CA, 94601
Community Information
Mercy Retirement and Care Center is an assisted living facility in Oakland, CA. Mercy Retirement and Care Center offers activities at their location for residents. These activities generally allow residents to maintain healthy lifestyles by encouraging movement and socializing with their peers.
Being able to chat with other residents becomes an important part of many peoples' lives and Mercy Retirement and Care Center offers common spaces indoors to support that need. The benefit of living in an assisted living community is that making meals can be costly and time consuming process so Mercy Retirement and Care Center provides meals for residents.
Staff is awake and available 24 hours a day so if any emergencies occur no matter the time, there will be someone ready to help. Making sure residents with diabetes monitor their insulin levels is clearly an important task and Mercy Retirement and Care Center can help with that task.
Unique Features
* Chaplains and social services provided
* Daily Mass
* Recreational and therapeutic activities
* Access to Mercy's wellness clinic
* Family Support Group for Dementia Programs
* Active volunteer visiting program
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Residents
MaleFemaleThe minimum age that a resident may be is 60 years old.
Staffing
Nurses on Staff24-Hour Awake StaffVisiting NurseVisiting PodiatristVisiting Physical TherapistVisiting Occupational TherapistVisiting Speech Therapist
Facility Care Level
Care Level Percentage Light Care % Medium Care % Heavy Care % Mercy Retirement and Care Center prefers that residents need: light care, medium care, heavy care
Additional Services
Diabetic Care
The community can help residents monitor their blood sugar but cannot give insulin injections.
Memory Care Offered
This community employs technology to prevent residents from wandering and becoming lost, for example bracelets that will ring an alarm if the resident leaves the community. The community's memory care area was purpose built to care for residents with Alzheimer's and dementia. The community's memory care section is in its own building.
Incontinence Care
Incontinent residents must be able to manage incontinence themselves. This staff at this community can remind incontinent residents to use the restroom. This community can care for residents with bowel incontinence. This community can care for residents with bladder incontinence.
Non Ambulatory Care
This community can provide a 2 person assisted transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair.
Other Care
This community provides multiple levels of care allowing residents to remain at the community while receiving increasing care.
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Transportation
Resident Parking AvailableComplimentary TransportationTransportation at CostProperty Convenient to BuslineSmoking
Allowed OutdoorsAdditional Amenities
Activities OnsiteActivities OffsiteDevotional Services OnsiteOutdoor Common AreasIndoor Common AreasBeautician OnsiteOther Services
Wheelchair Accessible ShowersHospice AvailableRespite OfferedAging in PlaceMeals
Meals ProvidedVegetarianActivities Provided
Please see this month's calendars on our web site. Cultural and shopping outings, laughter yoga, arthritis foundation certified exercise daily, Wellness Gym, Miniature golfing, movies, happy hour, daily Mass and rosary. -
Average Room Pricing at Mercy Retirement and Care Center
Room Type Assisted Living Studio 3425.00 Monthly 1 Bedroom 4175.00 Monthly Semi-Private 2 Bedrooms Disclaimer: The prices, amenities, features and care offered at senior communities are all subject to change; therefore information on this community profile may be out of date. Please note the costs per community are rough estimates; actual costs may vary depending on special offers and discounts, additional fees for services and care, and availability.
Estimated Fees at Mercy Retirement and Care Center
Fee Type Assisted Living Community Fee 6000.00 One-time Respite Fee 160.00 Daily Buy-In Fee High Care Needs Fee 3322.00 Monthly Medium Care Needs Fee 2035.00 Monthly Low Care Needs Fee 450.00 Monthly 2nd Person Fee 1150.00 Monthly Disclaimer: The prices, amenities, features and care offered at senior communities are all subject to change; therefore information on this community profile may be out of date. Please note the costs per community are rough estimates; actual costs may vary depending on special offers and discounts, additional fees for services and care, and availability.
Paying for care
Commercial InsurancePrivate paySocial SecuritySeparate pricing structure for careVeteran's benefits
Nearby Communities
If Mercy Retirement and Care Center isn't quite what you're looking for, take a look at a few other nearby communities that might be a better match.
Nearby Cities
| City | Distance | Number of Facilities | Average CostAverage Cost for 1 Bedroom |
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| Oakland | 0 miles | 7 | $4,940 |
| Alameda | 3 miles | 2 | $5,100 |
| Emeryville | 5 miles | 1 | $6,800 |
| San Leandro | 5 miles | 4 | $3,830 |
| Castro Valley | 10 miles | 1 | $4,770 |
| Hayward | 10 miles | 5 | $2,780 |
General Pricing Information for Oakland Assisted Living
| Room Type | Minimum Cost | Average Cost | Maximum Cost |
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| 1 Bedroom | $2,500 | $4,940 | $6,300 |
| 2 Bedrooms | $6,600 | $6,600 | $6,600 |
| Semi-Private | $2,000 | $2,885 | $3,600 |
| Studio | $2,300 | $3,870 | $5,270 |
Community Reviews
It was beautiful but expensive.
reviewed on: 01/09/2014 by FamilyIt was beautiful but expensive. It seemed they went out of their way to craft things for each person individually. They had a lot of religious things, and brought school kids in for different... Read the full review.
Community needs updating!!
reviewed on: 10/05/2016 by AnonymousDuring our tour I noticed that the community needed a lot of updating and renovations, it looked very outdated and old. I didn't like how the bedrooms did not have bathrooms and how they where... Read the full review.
An Additional Tour
reviewed on: 06/07/2017 by AnonymousConsidering the community is far away and it was not as nice looking, this was not the right fit. From the outside it looked like a dungeon but when you got into the building it looked nice. I... Read the full review.
Wonderful Community!!
reviewed on: 08/19/2016 by AnonymousThere is resident parking available. I took a tour of this community and really liked it. Pets are welcomed. They offer a wide variety of activities. Meals are provided for the residents. It is... Read the full review.
Great memory care!!
reviewed on: 01/11/2017 by AnonymousMy mother has been recently transferred into the memory care unit at this community and so far I have been pleased with the care she has been receiving. The staff are very encouraging on helping... Read the full review.
