Welcome!
Nestled on a tree-lined
street in a residential neighborhood, Beechtree
Care Center is a not-for-profit, skilled nursing residence and rehabilitation
center located in the heart of the Finger Lakes in downtown Ithaca, New York.
At Beechtree,
you'll find a dedicated staff that partners with you, and your loved one, to achieve and maintain
the best life possible for your loved one. Every resident receives 24-hour
skilled nursing
care in a safe and stimulating environment. At Beechtree,
every resident is treated with dignity and respect.
Person-Centered Care: Creating Home at Beechtree
Beechtree has
implemented Person-Centered Care, a new concept in
nursing homes that makes quality of life as important as quality of
care. Person-Centered Care means residents are given daily choices that foster individual
life-long habits. Residents can get up early, or sleep in.
Showers or baths are given when residents like to take them, not
when it "works" for staff. We do our best to meet each
resident's requests, and when we can't, alternative decisions are
made by resident and staff deciding together.
Person-Centered
care includes transforming our building to look and feel more like
home. Each Unit has become a neighborhood, with proper
neighborhood names:
Unit One is now
Cayuga Commons
Unit Two is now
Treman Terrace
Unit Three is
now Seneca Summit
Over the last
two years, we've raised $85,000 to transform Beechtree into a home
that provides a full and expansive life for our residents.
We've laid new flooring in the living areas of Treman Terrace and
Seneca Summit, covered cinderblock-walls and painted these
walls with
colors that brighten and cheer our residents' days. A library
has been added to Cayuga Commons, our nursing stations have been
redesigned, and we now have comfortable home-like furniture instead
of vinyl
furniture, once the only option for nursing homes.
We offer restaurant-style dining, with steaming
hot food served fresh from buffet-styled tables in every
neighborhood, as well as in our main dining room.
We encourage you
to stop by and see for yourself why Beechtree is a place that
should be considered when looking for a home for your loved-one.
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