Affinity House

    3042 Kilbourne Ave, Eau Claire, WI 54703
    • Assisted Living

    Five years clean life transformed

    I'm 5 years clean thanks to this very good program. The staff, counselors and manager are caring, knowledgeable and respectful, and the group programs in a nice, supportive house helped me turn my life around. It's hard but rewarding - I'm grateful and would highly recommend it to anyone willing to do the work.

    Current/former resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Medication management

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.67·(3)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      1.0
    • Amenities

      1.0
    • Value

      3.7

    Pros

    • caring and knowledgeable staff
    • respectful staff–resident interactions
    • supportive counseling and group recovery programs
    • effective sobriety and relapse-prevention support
    • engaged program leadership
    • welcoming residential environment

    Cons

    • inconsistent administrative management
    • limited family involvement in care coordination
    • inconsistent meal quality
    • housing and amenity deficiencies
    • program effectiveness dependent on resident engagement

    Summary of reviews

    Affinity House presents a mixed profile: reviewers highlight strong, recovery-focused clinical support alongside operational shortcomings that affect day-to-day living. The facility's strengths cluster around staff and programmatic elements, while criticisms center on management, dining, and housing/amenity issues.

    Care and staff: Reviewers consistently describe staff as caring, respectful and knowledgeable. Counselors, group leaders and on-site managers are credited with providing structured recovery programming and individualized support. Several accounts attribute sustained positive outcomes to the program’s clinical components and peer groups, including long-term sobriety for some residents. At the same time, reviewers emphasize that the program requires active resident participation to be effective — outcomes appear substantially better for people who engage with counseling and group work.

    Dining and activities: The facility offers organized group programs and counseling as a core part of its recovery model, which reviewers view positively. In contrast, dining is a recurrent area of concern: reviewers describe inconsistent or substandard meal quality. Prospective residents and families should ask for current menus, sample meals if possible, and clarification about meal-service consistency.

    Facilities and management: Descriptions of the residential environment are mixed. Some reviewers call the house welcoming and well-kept, while others cite shortcomings in housing quality and amenities. Administrative and management gaps are a recurring theme; critiques include inconsistent oversight and limited mechanisms for family involvement in care coordination. These operational weaknesses appear to affect experiences with housing conditions and dining continuity.

    Notable patterns and suitability: Overall, Affinity House appears well-suited to individuals motivated to work actively in a recovery program and who value hands-on counseling and peer support. Families and prospective residents should weigh the strong clinical and staff-level supports against facility-level concerns—particularly management consistency, family communication, meal quality, and amenity maintenance—and ask specific questions during tours to assess current conditions and administrative practices.

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    Location

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    Affinity House is located at 3042 Kilbourne Ave, Eau Claire, WI, 54703.

    About Affinity House

    Affinity House sits on nice grounds and has a calm, home-like setting where the focus is on care, support, and recovery, and although the building is peaceful, there's a lot going on for both care and treatment, because the facility offers special programs for women and young adults, and lets adult women and men ages 18 to 64 take part in services that include independent living, assisted living, memory care, home care, short-term respite care, and addiction treatment, and the staff take on clients dealing with both mental health and addiction, including those referred by the court. The care options make room for those living with challenges like bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, OCD, schizophrenia, and even those using opioid or methadone medication, though their medication has to be prescribed elsewhere, and people can stay for the duration they need, in short-term or long-term programs, since the place does everything from detox services to inpatient and outpatient treatment, partial hospitalization, and aftercare support, with transitional housing like halfway houses and sober homes for those who want safe, substance-free living once they finish main treatment.

    There's plenty of therapy, including individual, group, family, and couples counseling, and you'll find approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing, Matrix Model, motivational incentives, twelve-step facilitation, relapse prevention, brief intervention, rational emotive behavioral therapy, anger management, and trauma-related counseling, and for people facing alcohol or drug addiction, there's medication-assisted treatment, detoxification, long-term residential rehabilitation, and both adult and young adult programs, with sober living homes set aside just for women. There's also support for behavioral addictions like gambling, food, and internet, and they talk about withdrawal symptoms, dangers of drugs, cost of addiction, spotting warning signs, and even ways to help loved ones, since education is a big part of their work, and they've got community meetings and self-help groups for support during recovery and beyond.

    Affinity House cares about the whole person, so the team offers case management, social skills training, life coaching, and extra services for people with complex needs, including forensic services and support for folks in the legal system, and when it's time to leave, aftercare, discharge planning, and follow-up help continue to guide residents. Families and couples can join in counseling, and family support is built into their standard rate, with activities meant to help everyone cope. The daily routine includes creative arts spaces, outdoor and experiential activities, recreational therapy, and therapy methods like trauma therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. The center welcomes smokers in certain outdoor or indoor areas, follows a pet-friendly policy, and lets residents use a library, computers, and a small general store, with all meals provided and 24-hour security for safety; it accepts Medicaid, private payment, and sometimes government funding, and it's run by a private nonprofit linked to Lutheran Social Services, which connects Affinity House to a large network of community and faith-based programs, resource hubs like the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Eau Claire County, and more than 300 other groups.

    Affinity House holds recognition as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For, which means staff care about their work and the people they help, and the Council on Accreditation and community partners keep up standards. Gender-specific programming, support for women, and transitional or sober housing for women make the place a strong choice for that group, but the center provides memory care, senior assisted living, and other medical and mental health support for both aging adults and young adults, too. Every person entering Affinity House gets help tailored to their needs, and whether someone needs intense residential rehab, a safe place to live, counseling for a family, support for a mental health diagnosis, or just a place to start over, the team works together with each person to teach skills and give support for life after treatment.

    People often ask...

    Affinity House offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $1,598 per month.

    Affinity House offers assisted living.

    The full address for this community is 3042 Kilbourne Ave, Eau Claire, WI 54703.

    No, Affinity House does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

    Safety & Compliance

    In Wisconsin, the Department of Health Services' Division of Quality Assurance licenses assisted living and long-term care facilities through surveys, verification visits, and complaint investigations.

    License number510031
    StatusActive
    Facility typeCommunity-based Residential Facility
    License classRegular
    Capacity18 residents
    LicenseeLutheran Soc Serv of WI and Upper MI Inc
    Care servedAlcohol/drug Dependent, Correctional Clients
    EffectiveAugust 1st, 1988

    Inspection Reports

    4

    Reports

    6

    Citations

    1

    Complaints

    3

    Years

    04 Sept 2025Verification
    Verified that the previously identified deficiency was corrected. A $200 revisit fee was assessed.
    29 Oct 2024Verification
    Found that one prior deficiency was corrected; another deficiency persisted, relating to annual medication storage review by a physician, pharmacist, or RN; a $200 revisit fee was assessed.
    • Wis. Admin. Code § 83.37(1)(e)Medication regimen review
    10 Apr 2024Complaint
    Identified two deficiencies related to medication management: staff lacked required medication administration and management training, and there was no annual on-site review of the medication storage and administration system.
    • 83.20(2)(a)-(d)83.20(2)(a)-(d) Department-approved training courses
    • 83.37(1)(e)83.37(1)(e) Medication regimen, administration review
    21 Jul 2023Inspection
    Identified deficiencies in caregiver background checks, department-approved training, and annual medication storage review.
    • Wis. Stat. §50.065, and Wis. Admin Code DHS 12Licensee conduct caregiver background check
    • Wis. Admin Code DHS 83.20(2)(a)-(d)Department-approved training courses
    • Wis. Admin Code DHS 83.37(1)(e)Medication regimen, administration review

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