Levels of Care
People move in at different starting points. The level is a way to describe how much help a day takes. It can change without a move to another building.
Level 1
This is a mostly independent day. Cooking, housekeeping, and the yard are already handled, so energy can go to visits, hobbies, and rest.
Bring the chair, the photos, and the blanket that make a room yours. If walking or memory changes later, we rewrite the plan with you instead of asking you to start over somewhere else.
Level 2
Residents at this level need a hand several times a day: reminders, dressing, bathing, or getting to meals. They still do a lot on their own.
Some people are here less for heavy care than for a simpler life and company their own age. Help is close when it is needed, and it stays in the background when it is not.
Level 3
The day needs a caregiver nearby for much of it. That includes chronic illness and the weeks after an injury or a hospital stay. A nurse steps in when a task needs skilled hands.
Level 4
Extended care is extra help through the day: incontinence, medications, meals, bathing, dressing, and moving safely from one seat to another.
Intensive care is for more complicated needs. That can mean catheter care, dressing changes, diabetes tasks, or two people to help with a transfer. Some residents are in bed most of the day or are living with advanced dementia and need someone close by.
Level 5
Hospice is chosen when comfort, not more treatment, is the goal. Care follows the doctor’s orders and the hospice team’s plan. The resident picks the hospice agency.
Our caregivers keep doing the daily work: meals, repositioning, a bed bath, a clean shirt. Hospice may add a nurse, an aide, a social worker, a chaplain, medications, and equipment. We sit down with that team and the family so the same story is told to everyone.