Intercommunity Care Center

Intercommunity Care Center sits in Long Beach, California, near the I-405 freeway and Lakewood Blvd, and has 147 beds for skilled nursing care, mainly focused on Alzheimer's and dementia patients, which means they take extra precautions for safety with locked main entrance doors and perimeter fencing, and there's 24-hour nursing care provided by registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and certified nursing assistants. The center offers a full-time activity program with both individual and group activities, things like indoor puzzles, a gardening club, outdoor barbecues, trips to amusement parks, exercise, and has an activity calendar posted throughout the facility and included in a monthly newsletter, all managed by their Director of Activities, Janet Sosky. Social and emotional needs get attention too, since there's a full-time social services staff headed by Tina Ray, plus a consulting clinical social worker helps with psychosocial problems, and for health care there's physical and speech therapies, psychological and psychiatric services, and other health-related services like medication monitoring, podiatry, X-ray, laboratory, audiology, optical, and dental care, all usually coming through orders from a resident's attending physician, and the Medical Director is Ronald Philipp, DO. Rooms come in three-bed, two-bed, and private setups, and amenities include a beauty salon and barbershop run by a licensed operator, with options for housekeeping, meals, linen, and laundry services, though personal laundry costs $15 a month. The kitchen, led by Dietary Services Director Faylene Ethridge and a consulting dietitian, works to provide balanced therapeutic diets ordered by physicians, making sure everyone's meals meet their needs. There's visiting hours every day in the morning, afternoon, and evening, and the facility is designed for confused, wandering, geriatric residents, keeping a steady focus on care for those with memory problems. The activity calendar can also be viewed online with Adobe Reader, and the Office Manager for Medi-Cal is Monique Robinette. Jackie Hunter, DON, leads nursing, and there's a supervisor called the Administrator who oversees everything. The map of the facility is available for anyone who needs to find their way around.