Horizon House sits in Wautoma, Wisconsin at 402 East Division Street and is a small, 8-bed, licensed Community Based Residential Facility that takes care of seniors who want to stay as independent as they can but need some help with daily living. Horizon House gives each resident a personalized care plan so some folks get just a little help and others get more, depending on what they need, and the staff stays on site all day and night to keep watch and offer help, and you can always find staff nearby because they don't leave the place unattended. Horizon House gives care for different needs, with assisted living and memory care programs, and the building has safety features like emergency alert systems, a secure environment, and a team ready for problems big and small. If someone needs help with memory, they've got a special program for that, so folks don't get overwhelmed and can have peace of mind.
Residents get their own studio rooms, and the place is kept clean with housekeeping and laundry services included, plus the meals are handled there, with the kitchen making food for different diets, like if someone needs a diabetes diet or an allergy-sensitive menu, and there's all-day dining so people can eat when they're hungry. Everyone can join things like movie nights, group activities, and daily events planned by the staff, and there's a lounge, a dining room, a garden, and walking paths for getting fresh air or seeing a few neighbors. If people need to leave the building, transportation is arranged for appointments or trips around the town area, and it gives a bit of freedom for folks without their own car.
Medical and wellness services are on site and Horizon House helps with things like managing medicine, helping with bathing, dressing, and transfers for people who need it, with 24-hour help always there. There are amenities like phones in rooms, support with moving in, and a coordinator who helps settle new residents. The community has an administrator and employs supporting staff, including CNAs, LPNs/LVNs, and RNs, and offers jobs for caregiving, and the facility has a reputation for following state rules, licensed by local departments like the Department of Aging or Veteran's Services, but it doesn't take Medicare unless CMS certifies it. Resident life programs encourage community, but according to residents, the place has a low average rating of 1 out of 10, so it may have problems that families want to ask about before moving someone in.
On another note, Horizon House holds a lot of information about labs, with an updated database that adds more than 300 new labs every week and tracks over 300,000 labs every day, with special tools like Custom Exports, CRM-Lite, and search filters to look up things like lab types, sample volume, and more, so anyone researching healthcare labs could probably find what they need, and the lab director is Dr. Neville Duncan. They can find information about labs that are active, closed, or recently opened and can focus on certain types like industrial labs, labs in prisons, or skilled nursing facilities, and filter by the number of tests they run or if they're accredited, with analyzers and staff matched to customers, so the facility and its related resources seem ready for quite a range of healthcare and support services. The community gives care, safety, structure, meals, and social activities to help seniors live as well as possible for as long as they can, even though it's a small and simple place where families need to think carefully because it isn't rated highly by the people who've lived there.
