St Joseph Residence - The Washington Center sits in a restored school building that keeps a warm, historic atmosphere, and the whole place feels like a real community with caring staff and a focus on faith. The building has efficiency, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments, all set up with barrier-free showers and kitchenettes, plus private bathrooms and some come furnished, so folks can get around easier and feel at home. The campus is pretty spacious, with gardens, walking paths, and nearby parks where residents like to go outside during warm weather. There are patios, public lounges, a library, a community room, a recreational arts room, and a dining room where residents gather for regular, well-balanced meals with choices for allergies and diabetes if needed, and all-day, restaurant-style dining to help people feel relaxed at mealtime.
You can get independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care, and also rehabilitation and therapy services like physical, occupational, and speech therapy right there, which helps people stay comfortable and manage whatever care they need over time. St Joseph Residence - The Washington Center offers a resident-centered care plan for everyone, with personal assessments done by a care team, and healthcare comes by way of ThedaCare. They support daily living needs, like help with bathing, dressing, transfers, medication management, and supervision, and their staff includes registered nurses available on-site Monday through Friday and more who are on call. Family visits, lay shepherd support, and devotional services run both onsite and offsite, and there are visiting professionals for things like foot care, wound management, nurse practitioner appointments, physical therapy, home health, and hospice care.
There's a whole calendar of activities, with social events, therapy sessions, group activities, movie nights, outings, chapel visits, family visits, and also community-sponsored and resident-run get-togethers-plus wellness classes if people want. The place has an on-site salon and barber shop, laundry services, housekeeping, emergency call systems, and phones in rooms, so there's help any time, and the apartments make it easy for folks to keep their independence with 24-hour assistance nearby if things get tricky. Residents use the arts room, join workshops, head to the senior center on the lower level for lunch and weekday activities, and there are special programs and seminars like the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, focusing on academic and leadership training as well, which adds an interesting learning twist to daily life. Everything here aims to help people stay independent, respected, and comfortable, and the staff tries to give personal attention so everyone maintains a good quality of life and builds friendships. Catholic Health International owns and operates this faith-based community, and St Joseph Residence - The Washington Center, Inc., along with the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, runs things day to day with a real sense of compassion.
