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Enjoy three buffet meals daily with numerous
choices and liberal times.
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Care for their own rooms on a day-to-day basis.
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Receive guests in their rooms or our parlors.
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Feel part of a community, but still can enjoy the
privacy they desire
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Rise when they wish, and dress themselves.
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Choose from a wide variety of crafts, outings,
programs, parties, shopping trips.
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May attend Weekday and Sunday morning worship
services in our interdenominational chapel.
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Come and go from the home as they wish with a
simple sign-out system.
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Let staff do the weekly cleaning and linens.
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Furnish their room with familiar treasured things
from home or choose to have it furnished.
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Take trips with family and friends.
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Let the nursing staff worry about medications and
their administration.
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Feel safe knowing that a nursing staff member is
as close as their call button.
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Have opportunities to serve others in volunteer
tasks at the Home.
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Make new friends and rekindle old friendships.
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Have their hair styled in our Barber/Beauty Shop.
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Are comfortable and familiar with Good Samaritan
Home and staff, so if they need temporary or permanent nursing care,
it is a natural progression, not an upsetting change.
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Feel secure in a loving Christian environment.
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May receive scheduled bathing assistance in our
special "spa tubs" or showers.
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Receive Physical, Occupational, Speech or Aquatic
therapy to restore and maintain independence.
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Choose private, semi-private, or private-deluxe
rooms to meet their needs.
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Learn new skills in our computer lab:
e-mail, internet, word processing.
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May receive assistance with eyeglass and hearing
aid care.
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Know that their favorite aunt has three delicious
meals daily and friends to eat with.
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Don't worry about Dad forgetting his pills or
taking them twice
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Can go out-of-town for a wedding, and know that
their brother is happier staying home and looking at the pictures
later.
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Love to come to see Grandma and Grandpa in their
room, sitting in the same chairs they have sat in for years with the
same table beside them.
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Enjoy visiting and taking outings with their
older sister, rather than coming to check on her or bring her meals
so she will eat.
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May send frequent e-mails and pictures to
Great-Grandma at the Home.
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Feel that Uncle isn't so lonely, and has someone
to share talks about the "old days."
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Sleep better at night, knowing Mom has a call
button near her bed
