Specialized Services
Included in monthly fee.
- Expertise in providing appropriate, high quality dementia care specializing in those with a label of challenging/aggressive behavior and a history of repeated hospitalization for behavior management.
- Assistance with All Activities of Daily Living including toileting, bathing, dressing, brushing teeth, and feeding when necessary
- Attention to Emotional & Spiritual needs of each individual in addition to physical needs
- Residents stay in one familiar location through death.
- Incontinence care
- All Meals/ Snacks
- All Laundry – no limitations
- Toiletries
- Daily exercise program
- Individualized Daily Activities 7 days per week
- Animal Therapy 4 x per week
- Special Certified Music Therapy 2x per week
- Family and visitor meals with resident at no charge.
- Holiday Parties, Birthday parties, Summer BBQ’s provided for families and friends
- All Outings
- Transportation to appointments
- Spiritual Care Support
Staffing
- Staff to Patient ratio of 1 to 3 direct care workers who are Dementia Specialists.
- activity director and 3 activity aids for 32
- 1-1 buddy staffing for all new residents for 4-10 days to reduced trauma associated with move, to build trust, learn specific resident needs and connect new resident with possible buddy
- Additional staff support 1-1 staffing, when necessary, during acute illness, for behavior management and end of life support
- 1 Registered Nurse, in each home, on site a minimum of 40 hrs per week and on-call evenings and weekends
- RN monitoring & interaction with residents on a daily basis.
- Ongoing mandatory monthly staff training & support meetings for all staff members.
- Mentor Program – Mentor identified on each shift that is responsible to maintain resident centered focus of all staff, do new staff orientation & provide accountability & ongoing staff support
- Volunteer Program - Special training for volunteers to become Dementia Specialists in order to communicate effectively with persons with progressive dementia.
Healthcare Services
- Comprehensive pre-admission screening and assessment by Staff RN
- RN in charge, personally, for all steps of admission process and support for family
- RN’s familiar with each residents needs provide ongoing communication and support for families
- Weekly RN assessments to manage health status and need based behaviors of each resident.
- Monthly In-house Physician Rounds.
- Daily medication management.
- Registered Nurse accompanies residents to all Dr. Appointments.
- RN will accompany resident on all acute emergencies requiring Ambulance transport, ER or hospitalization
- Transportation to Doctor and Psychiatrist appointments
- Professional Foot Care provided by RN on a regular basis.
- Provide palliative and compassionate End of Life Care to residents and their families at the end of their journey.
Additional charges
- Beautician services available weekly
- Incontinence Supplies
- Medications
- Clothing
- Trained Dementia Specialist Staff to accompany resident for family outings, weddings, funerals, parties etc. by request