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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