Care Center

CARE CENTER

Lakewood Health System offers a 98 bed skilled nursing facility, with 25 of the beds being in a secured unit designated to the special needs of Alzheimer’s and other memory loss disorders. The Care Center philosophy includes providing a pleasant, caring, home like environment for our residents. We have physical therapy, occupational therapy, and nursing rehab to help our residents reach their top physical condition, allowing many of our residents to return to their own homes.

CLICK HERE to send an E-Greeting to a Care Center resident.

ACTIVITIES

The activity department is designed to meet the individual resident’s social, physical, mental and spiritual needs; to promote and encourage the resident to function at the highest level of independence possible; to reassess and adapt activities to suit the needs, capabilities and interests of each resident.

Residents are offered discussion groups, church services, music activities, exercise, pet therapy just to name a few. Shopping trips, picnics, special outings are also included to enhance their day. Volunteers play a critical role in the life the residents at the care center by hosting birthday parties, bingo parties, and one-on-one visits.

We welcome visitors and encourage you to share with us in providing the residents with programs that enrich their lives. For more information, or to volunteer, call 218-894-8340 (or 8340 from a patient room).

MEMORY LOSS (ALzHEIMER'S) UNIT

The best way to advocate for a person with Alzheimer’s disease is to prepare with them the plan of care they would like to receive, well in advance of the late stages of the disease. Doing so will enable you to respect his or her wishes and move forward knowing you are doing the “right” thing. The most common way of doing this is through legal documentation known as advance directives. CLICK HERE to learn more.

transitional care (Swing bed)

Regaining Strength to Return Home.
At Lakewood Health System, we can care for patients who are "not sick enough for a hospital bed" but "too sick to go home." We call this in-between time transitional care (referred to as swing beds within the healthcare field).

Transitional Care patients usually need to stay in the hospital in order to restore function, improve strength and regain independence for daily living activities, like bathing, dressing and feeding. Because of this focus, patients are treated more like residents than hospital patients. They may dress in their regular clothes, attend activities and socialize in the family room. All the while, these individuals are regaining their strength, mobility and independence to return home via a team of nurses, physicians, rehabilitation therapists, a case manager and an activity coordinator.