Groton Community Health Care Center

Groton Community Health Care Center, sitting in the Finger Lakes Region in Groton Township, is a non-profit skilled nursing facility with 80 beds that serves adults needing help with short-term rehabilitation, long-term care, or palliative care, and it has a team of skilled nurses, certified nursing assistants, and licensed practical nurses who provide 24-hour care, including personal care, access to walkers and wheelchairs, and therapeutic diets prescribed by physicians, plus daily housekeeping and laundry, all managed with an approach that aims for the person-centered care everyone talks about but here they try to actually live it by making customized care plans with each resident and their family so no one feels like a number, and they even have activities like Bingo, birthday parties, and social hours along with a regular schedule of therapeutic recreation for both body and mind while volunteers come and go with different duties, and the staff are pretty good about greeting visitors, whether it's during scheduled weekday visiting hours or after hours with an appointment, and the facility doesn't just stop at basic care because residents can get help from social services, support for psychosocial needs, connections to community programs like Community Sharps Collection, and access to Individualized Residential Alternatives for people with developmental disabilities, and for those facing serious illness there's hospice and palliative care focused on comfort, and for those recovering from surgery, injury, or illness there are dedicated short-term rehab programs, and anyone who comes for a tour can see all this for themselves while meeting folks who do their best to live up to a mission of offering general health care and support through both outpatient and inpatient services with the goal of giving adults some real options for long-term placement or short-term rehab depending on what's needed.