Alliance Health at West Acres

Alliance Health at West Acres sits in Brockton, Massachusetts, and is a senior living community focused on providing personalized support and round-the-clock skilled care for people who need a little help or a lot more, depending on their health, and it goes from assisted living and memory care through home care services, with a full nursing home that's got a 4-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and while the building isn't inside a hospital, it has an updated and modern facility with around 130 beds, including 138 Medicare-certified beds, and the staff work all day and night to meet each person's specific needs with care plans that handle medical problems and help keep independence, and the nurses and certified therapists provide help with post-surgery recovery, rehabilitation, long-term skilled nursing, and hospice care, and the licensed therapists offer physical, occupational, and speech therapy right inside the building, plus there are organized activities, outside garden areas, places to eat meals together, wifi, Internet access, and even salon services, so there's plenty for people to do and to keep comfortable, and depending on what someone needs, they can live in private or semi-private studios that suit each person, and the team can help with wound and ostomy care, diabetes management, pain, respiratory issues like CPAP or BIPAP, feeding tubes, IV therapy, and even special tests like on-site modified Barium swallow studies, and there's diabetic care, tracheostomy care, and psychiatric help, too, all with a physician-led team, and respite and short-term rehab between a hospital and home is also available in the Post Acute Unit for folks who aren't ready to go home, and in addition to skilled nursing for elders, Alliance Health at West Acres provides support programs for at-risk children, such as therapeutic foster care, making it a place that serves both older adults and young people who need help, and all this happens as part of Alliance Health and Human Services, a registered not-for-profit organization that tries to look after the whole person, always working with families to make sure care feels right, whether someone is there for a short stay or living long-term.