Laurelwood Manor Adult Family is a small care home with 6 licensed beds in Federal Way, WA, right in King County, and it's run by a husband and wife team-a nurse (LPN) and an EMT-who stay onsite and provide care day and night, and you're always going to see a nurse there to help with anything, so folks who stay here can get a lot of medical support like wound care, physical therapy and even help with ventilators or feeding tubes like G-tubes, J-tubes, and NG-tubes, which is something not all homes offer, plus if someone needs blood glucose checks, blood thinner INR checks, or help with managing catheters or total care for quadriplegic residents, they can do it, and the same goes for people with very complex conditions. The place is designed to prevent wandering with locked or fenced yards, exits are guarded by gates with security systems, so people with memory care needs, dementia, or Alzheimer's have safe supervision, and there are specialized memory care activities and care plans.
Residents get help with all the daily things-bathing, dressing, bathroom use, grooming, help with mobility, even support getting in or out of the shower or getting dressed-and the nurses or staff will also handle medicines, meals, and wound care, and they can coordinate or provide rides for medical appointments, shopping, faith services, or just growing older and needing to get out into the neighborhood. For recreation, there's a library, gardens, water or mountain views, fruit trees, access to a dock and the beach in season, outdoor patios, a book room, and places for animal therapy, gardening, and music, and people might take part in games, movie nights, art programs, fitness routines, daily activities, evening social events, and music therapy, with a vibrant life coordinator who tries to keep life lively but at an easy-going pace.
The place serves meals cooked on-site, with three homemade dishes a day, and will work with special diets or diabetic needs since they have a registered dietitian, and folks can have private dining with family, plus there's a beautician for haircuts and grooming right there. Rooms are private with semi-private bathrooms, and there's fast internet, cable TV (with channels in Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Filipino), DVDs, and smart remotes, and if you want, you can have pets visit under certain rules, though pets don't live at the facility.
They follow state rules as an Adult Family Home, which means a smaller, homelike place where deep ties can form between residents and caregivers, and if someone needs adult foster care, respite, adult day care, or board and care, they offer that too. Doctors visit for situations that need close medical watching, and there's therapy through home health care, rehabilitation, outpatient therapy, and even in house Dialysis with a registered nurse full time. The staff help with VA benefits, handle electronic charting you can see if you're the DPOA, and run a care program with a points system for managing needs.
Laurelwood Manor Adult Family tries to foster a friendly atmosphere where it's peaceful and quiet, with a focus on each person's dignity and independence, and services shift as people's needs change, including specialized support for developmental disabilities and mental health. The community still keeps things simple, with all care led by nurses and staff who are always there, and a calm setting for folks who want a gentle place to live out later life; Medicaid is accepted, and visiting hours run from 9:00am to 8:00pm.
