Admission Criteria

If you are considering Assisted Living as an alternative, here are the admission criteria you need to consider.

Financial Worksheet

We encourage you to run your actual numbers. You may be surprised!  Some families also include home care services and lost income by care giving family members.

Is the cost worth what you gain?
Click here to download a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet so you can run your own numbers.

Dependence verses Independence

We have a strong core belief that our residents face a daily decision. They can choose dependence or independence. Independence is a daily struggle, but it keeps the mind and the body alive and vibrant. Dependence, on the other hand, breeds dependency. We believe that just as the muscles in our bodies need to be used in order to be healthy, so too our wills need to be exercised and independence exerted. When any one feels truly independent, they typically feel that their lives have meaning.

Because of our passion about independence, we strive every day to motivate our residents to be more independent than they were the day before. We have committed to providing world class service when needed, but when there is a choice, we want our residents to choose independence!

Food is our best activity

When you think about great moments in your life, they are usually in a meal setting. We will always remember laughing with our family while eating grilled cheese sandwiches and hot chicken noodle soup on a rainy day in our youth. We recall with joy those wonderful celebrations and moments in restaurants with friends and family! Meals are important not only for good nourishment and health, but also for socialization.

At Brookridge Heights, we strive for great food in an elegant dining room. We pay extra attention to the presentation of the food. Our dining room is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.   We offer a great variety and for lunch and dinner there are two new entrees to choose from daily.  We are committed to providing a wonderful dining experience!

We know real HEROES

At Brookridge Heights, we have the privilege of seeing heroes every day- our own Care Attendants! These people give up themselves sacrificially in order to help our residents. Many will tell you they get back so much more than they give…they get back love, gratitude and knowledge that their lives have meaning and significance. At the end of the day, this is the true meaning of success!

Creating Community

At Brookridge Heights we are dedicated to building “Community”. Our community is a place where everyone, our residents, families and staff, interact and are committed to each others well being. This is where friendships are made, laughter is shared, and grieving is not done alone.

Access to healthcare is the first step to health

At Brookridge Heights we make access to healthcare easy.   We provide transportation so that outside medical appointments can be easily obtained.
We also work closely with home-health agencies who provide healthcare and therapy right in the residents’ apartments.

Brookridge Heights Life Enrichment Program

Most Assisted Living Communities have activity programs. Unfortunately, many times the activity becomes the end in itself. Many communities haven’t stopped and asked the penetrating question, “What is the purpose behind our activities?”

We believe that “activities for activity sake” is meaningless. There needs to be a purpose, a goal, behind every thing we do. We love the term “Life Enrichment Program” because it makes us think about the purpose behind the program. We believed that valid purposes are; to be productive or to contribute, to experience success, to play, to be with others, to build skills, to have a sense of control, to feel safe and secure, to fulfill a religious or spiritual need, to experience growth and learning.

Communicating Results

Since we have these passionately held beliefs, we feel bound to communicate to our residents and their families what progress is being made. We do this through our Personalized Care Program, which is a periodic written evaluation of our every resident which covers the major areas of their life. Our goal is to work with each resident and their family to identify individual needs and wants, establish goals for each of these areas, and then look for the right solutions