The Caring Super Stars of 2022 are senior living communities who have earned the Caring Stars reviews award for 2022 plus two or more additional years since this first-of-its-kind program launched in 2012. These are the repeatedly stellar senior living communities that seniors and their family members praise — year after year.

Caring Super Stars in Senior Living for 2022

ALABAMA — 1 community

• Danberry at Inverness

ARIZONA — 2 communities

• Atria Chandler Villas

• Pacifica Senior Living Paradise Valley

ARKANSAS — 2 communities

• Apple Blossom

• West Shores

CALIFORNIA — 24 communities

• Atria Del Rey

• Atria Hacienda

• Atria Las Posas

• Atria Palm Desert

• Eskaton Village Placerville

• Estancia Del Sol

• Hollenbeck Palms

• Meridian at Lake San Marcos

• Mission Commons

• Oakmont of Carmichael

• Oakmont of Fresno

• Oakmont of Montecito

• Pacifica Senior Living Bakersfield

• Pacifica Senior Living Escondido

• Pacifica Senior Living: Riverside Legacies Memory Care

• The Park Lane

• Rowntree Gardens

• Silvergate Fallbrook

• Solstice Senior Living at Bakersfield

• Sunrise at La Costa

• Sycamore Glen - Active Senior Community

• Valencia Commons

• Valencia Terrace

• Walnut Park

DELAWARE — 1 community

• The Lorelton

FLORIDA — 11 communities

• Atria Park of Baypoint Village

• Atria Park of San Pablo

• Atria Windsor Woods

• Desoto Beach Club

• Grace House of Tampa

• Grand Villa of Largo

• Meridian at Westwood

• Pacifica Senior Living Forest Trace

• Pacifica Senior Living Ocala

• The Tremont

• The Venetian Gardens

GEORGIA — 5 communities

• Ashbrook Village

• Parc at Duluth

• Sterling Estates of East Cobb

• Summerset Assisted Living

• Washington Commons

IDAHO — 1 community

• Lincoln Court

ILLINOIS — 4 communities

• The Breakers at Edgewater Beach

• Brookdale Des Plaines

• Brookdale Glen Ellyn

• Brookdale Hoffman Estates

INDIANA — 3 communities

• North Woods Village at Edison Lakes

• Residences at Deer Creek

• StoryPoint Fort Wayne North

IOWA — 2 communities

• The Keystones of Cedar Rapids

• Woodlands Creek Retirement Community

MAINE — 1 community

• Schooner Estates

MARYLAND — 1 community

• Sunrise of Severna Park

MASSACHUSETTS — 6 communities

• Benchmark Senior Living at Billerica Crossings

• Benchmark Senior Living at Shrewsbury Crossings

• Dodge Park Rest Home

• Mary Ann Morse at Heritage

• Oasis at Dodge Park

• The Village at Willow Crossings

MICHIGAN — 7 communities

• Blue Water Lodge

• Independence Village of Brighton Valley

• Independence Village of Oxford (Waterstone)

• Independence Village of Plymouth

• Robbinswood Assisted Living

• Sunrise of Bloomfield Hills

• Wescourt

MISSOURI — 4 communities

• The Fremont Senior Living

• The Gardens at Barry Road

• Orchid Terrace

• Senior Star at Villa Ventura

NEVADA — 1 community

• Oakmont of Las Vegas

NEW HAMPSHIRE — 1 community

• Maple Suites

NEW JERSEY — 3 communities

• Arbor Terrace Roseland

• Brandywine Living At Howell

• Fellowship Village

NEW YORK — 2 communities

• The Bristal at Lake Grove

• The Hearth at Castle Gardens

NORTH CAROLINA — 1 community

• Creekside Terrace

OHIO — 3 communities

• Independence Village of Avon Lake

• Spring Hills Middletown

• Spring Hills Singing Woods

OKLAHOMA — 2 communities

• The Parke Assisted Living

• Tamarack Assisted Living Center

PENNSYLVANIA — 5 communities

• Brookdale Mt. Lebanon

• Country Meadows of Leader Heights

• Heritage Hill Senior Community

• Traditions of Hanover

• Traditions of Hershey

SOUTH CAROLINA — 2 communities

• Deepwood Estates

• Eagle Crest

SOUTH DAKOTA — 1 community

• Dow Rummel Village

TENNESSEE — 3 communities

• Brookdale Dogwood Creek

• The Groves at Oak Ridge

• Town Village Audubon Park

TEXAS — 12 communities

• Atria Willow Park

• Blue Skies of Texas

• Brookdale Club Hill

• The Inn at Los Patios

• Newforest Estates

• Parkview in Allen

• Seasons Alzheimer's - Assisted Care (Nacogdoches Road)

• Seasons Alzheimer's - Assisted Care (Old Tezel Road)

• Silver Creek Assisted Living

• Sunrise of Cinco Ranch

• Tiffin House Assisted Living and Memory Care

• The Waterford at Thousand Oaks

UTAH — 6 communities

• The Auberge at Aspen Park

• Chancellor Gardens

• Courtyard at Jamestown Assisted Living

• Legacy House of Bountiful

• Pacifica Senior Living Millcreek

• The Seville

VIRGINIA — 2 communities

• Dogwood Terrace

• The Willows at Meadow Branch

WASHINGTON — 2 communities

• Meridian at Stone Creek

• Solstice Senior Living at Tacoma

WISCONSIN — 1 community

• Harbour Village

Congratulations to these 122 senior living communities across the United States!

***See the full list of Caring Stars of 2022.

Caring Stars is a service excellence award and trustworthy annual list of the best senior living communities and senior care agencies based on consumer ratings and reviews on Caring.com. These top-rated senior living communities and in-home care agencies have a lot of great reviews, top ratings, recent reviews, and responses to all negative reviews too. Each year, Caring.com uses a specific set of reviews-based criteria that the communities and agencies must meet in order to be considered for the award — and the bar is purposefully set high to ensure that the program continues to truly represent those communities and agencies best meeting the needs of seniors and their families.

We announced the 2022 list for senior living in mid-November 2021. Home care agency winners are announced in December.

To be considered for the longstanding and distinguished Caring Stars list for 2022, senior living communities, nursing homes, home care agencies, home health agencies, and hospice agencies must have met the following criteria:

● 10 or more consumer reviews published on their Caring.com listing, with an overall average rating of 4.5 stars or higher (on a scale of 1 to 5) by October 15, 2021;

● 3 or more published reviews on their Caring.com listing from 10/15/20 through 10/15/21, with at least one of the recent reviews being a 5-star review and one or more published in 2021; and

● Public-facing responses to any 1-star or 2-star negative reviews on the Caring.com listing

In addition to the above qualifications, Caring conducts a reviews-integrity audit for every review on every finalist’s directory listing. Another quality-assurance measure Caring takes is to screen finalist senior living communities using available licensing and inspection reports on state agency websites.

Have questions about the Caring Stars criteria or the program in general? Please contact reviews@caring.com or (650) 762-8190.

Are you familiar with Caring.com’s annual Caring Stars award program? It can help boost sales and marketing (as well as support staff recruiting and retention) for your senior living community or home care agency!

Launched in 2012 as the first of its kind in the senior living industry and now open to home care agencies as well, the Caring Stars award honors service excellence based on consumer ratings and reviews on Caring.com. Senior living communities and home care agencies achieve the “Caring Stars” award through lots of high praise in online reviews from their customers — older adults and family caregivers — and by responding to any critical feedback in negative (1-star and 2-star) reviews.

The Caring Stars award helps families narrow their choices to the best of the best, and quickly find the right senior care providers for their elderly loved ones. The integrity of our reviews program and the extensive vetting we do of the Caring Stars helps instill confidence for family caregivers and older adults in requesting more information about the agencies and taking a tour of the senior living communities. In fact, in our analysis of directory listings for our partners with the award vs. those without:

Caring Stars winners have averaged twice as many inquiries and 3x the move-ins as partners without the award

Every year, Caring Stars also generates positive content, media coverage, and social buzz — and boosts morale — for winning communities and agencies. Some Caring Star winners put the badge or winner widget on their websites, within e-newsletters, and in their billing statements, as ‘social proof’ of the high quality services they’re delivering. Caring Stars also frequently get featured in their local newspapers which helps raise awareness about their high quality services with more people in their area. Both the award and review excerpts make for good content on their social profiles as well. And the award gives senior living communities and home care agencies an opportunity to celebrate staff for a job well done, and build enthusiasm and pride in their workplace. Some communities even host a Caring Stars celebration with residents, and we at Caring.com enjoy visiting some of these resident parties as well.

More than 650 communities and agencies were recognized as Caring Stars 2021. Congratulations to each of these senior care providers for earning such accolades from their customers!

The deadline to qualify for Caring Stars 2022 is October 15, 2021.

There is no application for the award — it’s based on the reviews on your Caring.com listing. To be a Caring Star of 2022, we recommend you plan to meet or exceed the 2021 winner criteria. We also recently held a series of free webinars to help senior living communities and home care agencies better understand how to get and respond to reviews, and how to qualify for Caring Stars 2022:

• June 2021 – Senior Living: How to Optimize Your Online Reputation: Peruse the slides — slide 41 has specific goals for communities; or watch the webinar recording

• June 2021 – Home Care: How to Optimize Your Online Reputation: Peruse the slides – slide 42 has specific goals for agencies, or watch the webinar recording

• July 2021 – How the Major Reviews Websites Vary, presented with ReviewTrackers: Peruse the slides, or watch the webinar recording

• August 2021 – How to Ask for Reviews, presented with Consumer Fusion: Peruse the slides, or watch the webinar recording

Have questions? Please contact our reviews team at reviews@caring.com or (650) 762-8190.

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SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT CARING POSTCARDS: We moved our postcard processing operations to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2019, and then sunsetted the reviews-by-postcard program in 2021 (blank card distribution ceased in March 2021, and the postage permit on return cards expires 9/30/21). We now offer a review call-in line. Contact reviews@caring.com for assistance in using this free service for partners only.

Editor’s note: This article is published each year with updated dates and info.