Senior Connection: Local Senior Care Facilities

Assisted Living – The Elmcroft Way

The Elmcroft way of caring for seniors begins with committed, caring people in a warm and welcoming environment where residents receive personalized services and opportunities for meaningful interaction and recreation.

Elmcroft takes pride in its associates, carefully selecting only those who demonstrate a generous heart, a warm spirit and a genuine compassion for others.  While many places can assist with the activities of daily living, Elmcroft reaches beyond these everyday needs and strives to enrich the unique life of each resident.

Elmcroft’s goal is to provide an inviting place for residents to enjoy their friends, their families and their independence.

The Community at Holy Family Manor

The Community of Holy Family Manor, located at Mt. Nazareth Center in Bellevue, provides two services for frail seniors:

Comfort Keepers:  Comfort Keepers is a non-medical home care program that offers personal care, housekeeping and companionship services to adults over the age of 18.  With offices at Mount Nazareth Center and Churchill, Comfort Keepers can provide stabilizing support to help frail and disabled adults remain at home.  Contact:  412-931-5866

Holy Family Manor:  Holy Family Manor is a licensed personal care home located at Mt. Nazareth Center.  Open to the public, the Manor provides 24 hour support and assistance with daily activities for adults who want to live in a homelike atmosphere.  Highlights include the Nazareth Café and our Chapel where liturgy is celebrated each morning. Contact: 412-931-9866.

Hope Hospice

At Hope Hospice, we believe in quality and compassionate care for our clients and families facing end of life issues.  Our care and support of our clients comes in many forms - physical, spiritual and emotional.

The hospice team addresses the needs of patients and families in all of these areas.  Those who have experienced hospice often tell us, ”We wish we would have received hospice care sooner.”

Earlier referrals to hospice result in better quality of life for patients in their remaining months.  They allow patients to benefit from pain and symptom management while they are still well enough to live each day to the fullest.  While it is most common for physicians to make a hospice referral, any loved one can make a referral as well. Hospice is covered by Medicare and most other insurances.

For more information, call us today at 1-877-367-3685 or visit.

Reformed Presbyterian Home

Many suburbanites look at Pittsburgh as a place to visit, not to live.  But a growing number of retired persons who want stimulation, not isolation, are moving into town.  They are leaving behind the cares of home ownership for a simpler lifestyle where entertainment, shopping, major hospitals and transportation services are readily available.  RPH, a Continuing Care Retirement Community that has been serving seniors since 1897, is offering stylish new apartments just minutes from the Point.  We invite you to contact us for more information at 1 800 RP HELLO.  You can be in your lovely, maintenance-free apartment before the first snow flake falls.  Enjoy the peace of mind that comes from living in a community that meets your needs now and in the future.

Sherwood Oaks Retirement Community (Part of UPMC Senior Communities)

With its indoor, heated swimming pool, fitness center and expansive, green campus, Sherwood Oaks is planning for the next generation of retirees. The retirement community opened in 1982 after careful planning by a group of Pittsburgh retirees who said they wanted to give their friends the option to stay in Pittsburgh during their retirement. After years of studying other communities in and out of Pennsylvania, they patterned Sherwood Oaks after the best of what they had observed.

Today, the retirement community has an expanded health and wellness program, more dining options, and is building new apartments and patio homes. Also on the planning board is a new health center offering private health accommodations.  Throughout these changes, however, Sherwood Oaks continues as a community where active retirees enjoy the benefits of a carefree, independent lifestyle with the backup of on-site health care and unlimited nursing care.  For information, call (800) 642-2217.

St. Barnabas Health System

St. Barnabas Health System offers a continuum of care. Retirement living is provided through the St. Barnabas Communities at The Village at St. Barnabas and The Washington Place at St. Barnabas, both in Richland Township, and The Woodlands at St. Barnabas in Valencia. To help independent residents maintain independence, home care services are available. Assisted living is provided at The Arbors at St. Barnabas in Valencia. Skilled nursing care is provided at St. Barnabas Nursing Home in Richland Township and Valencia Woods at St. Barnabas in Valencia. St. Barnabas’ newest service is a hospice program, which offers high quality end-of-life care within St. Barnabas’ facilities or at individuals’ homes. Outpatient care is available for St. Barnabas residents and the public at St. Barnabas Medical Center. St. Barnabas’ Kean Theatre provides an exciting entertainment venue while raising money for the St. Barnabas Free Care Fund. For information, call 724-443-0700 or visit www.stbarnabashealthsystem.com.

Stonebrook Village

Stonebrook Village is a 55 and over community featuring spacious carriage homes and apartments at the Commons, where our residents enjoy a maintenance-free lifestyle.

The newly designed carriage homes feature a two car garage, two bedrooms, den, spacious family room, dining room, and laundry room.  The affordable studio, 1- and 2-bedroom apartments include amenities such as a meal daily, weekly housekeeping, transportation, opportunities to socialize and to be as active as you choose.  We provide a warm, friendly atmosphere with no buy-in fees or long-term leases, where our staff knows each of our residents and can respond to personal needs.

Stonebrook Village is located off Rochester Road in the Town of McCandless.  The community is encompassed by fifty acres of trees and streams.  Although the setting is park-like, Stonebrook Village is only minutes from Interstate 279 and downtown Pittsburgh.  It is just five minutes from shopping, professional services, places of worship and local entertainment venues.

Wexford House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Wexford House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a full-service nursing facility providing skilled nursing care, medical services, therapy and activities for your loved ones.  We offer specialized programming for individuals in need of short-term post-surgical recovery, rehabilitation and skilled medical services.  Our team of therapists facilitate and expedite the rehabilitation process, establishing goals which enable residents to return to their highest level of functional ability and return home.

For those residents who choose to make our home their home, our focus is on providing care and comfort, while enhancing the joy and dignity of life for each of our individual residents.  Our team of caring nurses, physicians and specialized activities staff offer experiences that assist in maintaining the highest quality of life possible.

Our staff is ready and willing to help make the transition for residents and their families as comfortable as possible.  Contact the Admissions Department at (412) 366-7900 to arrange a tour and learn more about available services.

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