Smithville Living Center cares for older adults in a supportive setting and is set to open in Smithville in Spring 2025 at 106 Hospital Drive, offering both private and semi-private rooms, along with fully furnished spaces that have private bathrooms, kitchenettes, cable TV, and Wi-Fi. The place has 100 beds and provides several living options, including independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, and memory care for those with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, with secure spaces and round-the-clock supervision to help keep people safe and prevent wandering. Nurses, aides, and other staff give assistance with daily living-like bathing, dressing, and managing medicines-plus they offer help with feeding, toileting, and moving about for folks who need more support, and they help with laundry, housekeeping, and arranging appointments as needed. The team is known for being warm, joyful, and helpful, showing compassion to both residents and visitors alike, and there are always people around to help at any time of the day or night with an emergency call system in place for peace of mind. The center accepts several payment methods, including Medicaid, Medicare, private pay, long-term care insurance, and insurers like AETNA, CIGNA, HUMANA, and UNITEDHEALTH GROUP, which helps more people get the help they need.
Smithville Living Center offers long-term care, trach care, respite and short-term stays, and skilled nursing, so whether someone needs ongoing support or just help for a little while after a surgery, illness, or injury, the staff is trained for it. They also provide focused care for conditions such as COPD, diabetes, heart problems, end-stage kidney disease, wounds, stroke recovery, C-Diff, VRE, and even veterans with moral injury, and the staff can manage catheters, colostomies, oxygen, tube feedings, and IVs. Physical, occupational, and speech therapies are available, along with help for pain, palliative treatments, wound care, and help learning new skills during recovery, all of which are important for people looking to improve or maintain strength and function. If someone needs hospice care, the staff supports those needs, too.
Memory care at the center means there are secure units, activities for memory support, therapies, supervised spaces, daily engagement, and therapies to help reduce confusion. They design the memory care program for safety and to keep residents active, offering exercise, social activities, games, arts, and music, plus community-sponsored events and trips out into town when possible. Residents have access to computers, a small library, outdoor gardens, walking paths, and a beauty salon, and the center has a dining room with chef-prepared meals and snacks, with choices for special diets including for folks with diabetes.
There's a dedicated wellness center and fitness room, plus regular movie nights and entertainment, and the community encourages people to stay involved in planning and running activities, which means residents often have a say in what's happening day to day. Transport and parking are arranged for doctors' visits and errands, and there's help getting to appointments. Bathrooms are set up for wheelchairs, the whole place has air conditioning, and safety is a priority everywhere. Ancillary healthcare staff visit to provide podiatry and other services in the building, and staff work with doctors to keep people as healthy and independent as possible. The environment's friendly and meant to help people keep their independence, with care plans set up for each person based on what they want and need, and the focus stays on respect, safety, and promoting well-being.
