Beckley Farm Lodge
530 Simcoe St
Victoria, BC V8V4W4
Vancouver Island Health
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Beckley Farm Lodge is a long-term care facility in Victoria, BC with 64 beds, operated by Broadmead Care Society. The facility provides 3.45 funded direct care hours per resident day. It has a 3.8 out of 5 Google rating based on 12 reviews.
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Reviews
Beckley Farm Lodge receives mixed reviews centered on a strong contrast between staff quality and facility condition. Reviewers consistently praise care staff for compassion, attentiveness to medical needs, and willingness to accommodate individual resident preferences, with notably high employee retention. However, multiple reviews cite the aging physical infrastructure, poor food quality, and occasional interpersonal issues with nursing and administrative staff as significant drawbacks.
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What families appreciate
- +Staff treat residents with decency, respect and compassion
- +Very attentive to medical issues and prompt in communicating concerns
- +Staff accommodate individual residents' specific needs and preferences
- +High employee retention with staff working 30+ years
- +Care aides are friendly and genuinely seem to care
Common concerns
- -Facilities are old and worn out in appearance
- -Food quality is poor
- -Nursing staff and office workers can be unfriendly or have poor attitudes
- -Facility feels impersonal and depressing
- -Understaffed
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Recent Reviews
Beckley Farm Lodge is such a warm, welcoming and safe space for its residents. My parents both resided there until my mom passed last month. My dad is currently a resident. I can’t say enough about how amazing the staff have been throughout the years they have been here. It really is like a family a...
Owner response
Response from the owner 2 months agoYou made our day! Thank you for sharing this wonderful story. ❤️
Excellent, professional staff. Good staff culture and programs to animate the facility. Honest hard work; tangible results.
Owner response
Response from the owner 2 years agoThank you, Erik.
My father has been in Beckley Farm since June, and throughout these past few months, I have been nothing but impressed by the quality of care here. I would go so far as to say that everyone who works at Beckley Farm embodies the very notion of care; they treat residents (both on the main floor and t...
Owner response
Response from the owner 3 years agoThank you for your lovely message, Sonja. We have forwarded this to Beckley Farm Lodge, as we know it will bring a smile to their faces. :-)
My mom was here for almost a year. It felt very impersonal. The care aides were friendly and really seemed to care. The nurse less so and the office worker at the main desk really unfriendly. As expected, the food wasn’t great and the place is very old looking, feels worn out. Tough for our relative...
Owner response
Response from the owner Edited 3 years agoThank you for taking the time to post your review. We’re sorry to learn of your family's experience during your mom’s time living at Beckley Farm Lodge. The Lodge is in great need of modernization. We are continuing to make improvements … More
This place is a complete dump. Do not put your aging loved one here. Understaffed, low quality food, facilities are old and falling apart. Avoid if you can.
Owner response
Response from the owner 4 years agoBroadmead Care takes voiced concerns very seriously. We have reason to believe that the author of this post is not who they say they are, and have deliberately misrepresented themselves using a false name. If this is not the case, please contact us by email at communications@broadmeadcare.com, or call 250.658.3226 to allow us an opportunity to work towards resolution.
Please don't put your aging parents in here.
The care staff at Beckley farm lodge are honeastly some of the best. Ive instructed many classes of future HCAs and the Beckley staff have been the most diligent in mentoring the atudents on their clinicals and practicums. Professional caring kind front end workers and management support is amazing....
All the staff are great. The nurses have major attitude.
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