We provide Respite Care for caregivers who may need a vacation or some time away. Our program gives family caregivers “time off” so they can resume care giving, refreshed and rested. Call it a well-deserved vacation. Please call and arrange dates through our Admissions Department as soon as you know you have a need.

Program Features Include: Length of Stay: The length of stay can range from 3 to 28 days. Longer lengths of stay can be arranged if needed.

Pre-stay Arrangement: The resident must have a recent physical examination and a TB skin test prior to admission. Our Admissions Department can assist you in arranging these if needed. In addition, our Medical Director will follow the resident’s care, unless other arrangements are made with the individual’s personal physician.

What is Included in the Cost of the Stay: • Private* or semi-private room • 24-hour nursing care • Daily planned activities • Three meals and snacks • Local phone calls • Private rooms are available only at certain CommuniCare locations

What is Not Included in the Costs of the Stay: • Prescription drugs • Access to Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapies • Medical and Personal Supplies

Checklist of Items To Bring With You: • Clothes for three days, including night clothes and bathrobe • A few personal mementos, to make the stay feel more like home • Television or radio, if desired • Personal care items such as: hairbrush, comb, soap, hand lotion, makeup, toothbrush/toothpaste, deodorant and tissues • Afghan, blanket or comforter for bed • Phone numbers of doctors, nearest relative and location where family can be reached • Copy of Medicare Card, Social Security Card and any additional insurance cards • Copy of Living Will, DPOA-HC or POA

We offer specialized programming for individuals in need of post surgical recovery, physical medicine and/or rehabilitation/skilled medical services.

Meeting Individual Needs with the Highest Quality Our center acts as a step between hospital and home. We offer a continuum of care designed to meet the individual needs of each of our residents. We weave an interdisciplinary high-tech approach between our array of specialized programs so that residents can make a smooth, quick transition back into the community.

Specialized Programming:

Our ‘World Class’ team is dedicated to providing individualized care and services to those residents who choose to make our home their home. Our team of caring nurses, physicians and specialized activities staff offer experiences that enrich each day.

Safety, security, socialization, maintaining individuality and dignity, as well as promoting independence, are the goals that inspire the staff providing daily care. Our long term care units provide:

Specialized Services

• Admissions welcomed 24 hours a day/seven days a week
• Medicaid application assistance
• Financial/insurance consultation
• Private* and semiprivate rooms
• Delicious meals and snacks
• Life Enrichment Activities 7 days a week
• Social services
• Licensed dietitian
• Laundry services
• Discharge planning

*Private rooms are available only at certain CommuniCare locations.

If short-term rehabilitation is essential…you’ll be looking for a place where caring professionals are committed to getting residents back to work, or back to home.

Our goal is to enable residents to return to their highest level of functional ability and to get them home. We recognize that it is people who make the difference. We provide a skilled team of physical, respiratory and occupational therapists and speech language pathologists to facilitate and expedite the rehabilitation process. Our focus on helping the resident goes well beyond the traditional therapist/resident relationship. All levels of center staff are involved in maximizing the resident’s care.

Physical Therapy Maximize the resident’s capabilities to move and function independently within the environment using a variety of tools, techniques and equipment. Occupational Therapy Restore the resident’s ability to adequately perform self-care, work related, social and leisure activities. Expertise provided for those with memory, problem solving or attention deficits.
Speech Therapy Improve neurologically impaired resident’s ability to communicate and to treat swallowing disorders. We offer all residents comprehensive discharge planning, including family meetings and home evaluations. Our therapists, prior to discharge, take the resident to their home to determine safety issues, equipment needs and to provide a smooth transition to their home.

Our center successfully manages residents with chronic renal failure. We are pleased to offer inpatient and outpatient dialysis services for the convenience of the resident, caregiver, physician and community. We specialize in complex resident care issues, with no transportation schedules, and the possibility of returning home and receiving outpatient hemodialysis at the same center with the same staff…seamlessly!.

Program Features Include:

We offer specialized short-term and long-term care for older adults experiencing behavioral and emotional challenges associated with disorders such as traumatic brain injury, organic brain syndrome, non-Alzheimer's Dementia with agitation and psychiatric disorders. Emotional challenges coupled with medical diagnoses may result in a compromised quality of life.

The Beacon Rose Program is the only Long Term Program of its kind.

Come visit our Beacon Rose Behavioral Health Unit!

We offer activity-based Alzheimer’s care with an innovative approach to caring for residents with dementia. In a quiet, social, home-like environment, our highly trained team of caregivers consists of everyone who comes into contact with the resident. Staff and residents feel comfortable and enjoy being with one another.

Flexible schedules allow for individual residents to function at their own pace in keeping with their former lifestyle, preferences and activities. Each event or interaction with staff, volunteers, relatives and other residents provides a meaningful learning experience to all residents, enabling them to continue their daily living habits with interest and meaningful success. Each individual will be involved in a variety of new activities and favorite old ones to provide the resident the ability to engage in social ritual, the ability to access early life memories, a sense of general well-being, a feeling of accomplishment and the basic desire for interpersonal communication.

A sample of activities include:
• One-on-one conversations or interaction
• Helping residents make their beds, dust their rooms, put away their clothes, take a bath or shower, etc.
• Setting tables for meals and cleaning tables after meals
• Going for a walk, watering plants, reading, making crafts, engaging in group activities, etc.
• Celebrating birthdays, holidays, cultural events, etc.

Additional Program Components
• Meals served more often, including a variety of foods prepared to meet individual needs
• Activities that involve one-on-one interactions, group programs or the privacy of doing “their own thing” to meet all goals
• Assessment of the resident’s cognitive abilities and the level of activity that would be most successful for each resident
• Therapeutic sensory group activities Meaningful Activity Reflects
• A resident’s interest and lifestyle and what is enjoyable to him or her
• Help residents feel useful and provide a sense of belonging

Our ventilator care program has a high rate of success in weaning our residents from ventilator support. We strive to make this a reality for as many individuals as possible.

Our center provides care for residents who require ventilator care due to an injury, chronic disease or other respiratory and neurological problems. By providing specialized nursing and medical intervention, we are able to assist residents in reaching their highest level of independent function. We strive to wean residents from mechanical ventilators whenever appropriate, thus enabling them to re-establish breathing on their own.

We offer a multidisciplinary approach to the care of the person dependent on mechanical ventilation, whether the resident needs a ventilator temporarily or indefinitely. Our staff is comprised of skilled and experienced professionals who work together to create a personalized and goal oriented interdisciplinary care plan. Individuals on ventilators are closely monitored by both respiratory therapists and nursing 24-hours a day to ensure adequate airway management.

We are dedicated to improving the quality of life and achieving an optimal level of normal functioning for the individual with compromised pulmonary function. Whenever possible, the focus of the ventilator program is to wean the individual from the ventilator and successfully discharge them to home. The interdisciplinary team provides plans to ensure individualized education and restorative therapies that promote medical healing and rehabilitation. A team of dedicated professionals has been assembled to meet each individual’s unique care needs. The individual and his/her family are very important members of the team and we encourage both the resident and family to fully participate, learning to create a new way of life that maximizes each individual’s potential.

Making the decision to place a loved-one in a skilled nursing facility is a difficult one. Our caring staff works with the resident and family to offer support and counseling. With the latest technologies and a staff of skilled, caring professionals and the unique therapeutic community here, we have created a program geared to facilitate success.