The Wartburg Home has nine care types in Mount Vernon, NY. The nine are adult day care, assisted living, hospice care, independent living, memory care, nursing home care, palliative care, respite care, and skilled nursing.
Independent living is private living with community services available, and assisted living adds assistance with washing, dressing, and taking medication. Memory care is a secured space with supervision inside it, while nursing home care and skilled nursing put licensed nurses on the floor at all hours. Adult day care is structured for the daytime, with nobody moving in to get it. Respite care is the short stay that a family books around a caregiver’s trip or recovery time. Hospice deals with the end of life when there is no more recovery plan, and palliative care deals with comfort and symptoms along the way during a recovery plan.
Moving up a care level here does not mean moving out, and that’s what a range this wide is for. Two hundred ten beds are licensed. The Wartburg Home of the Evangelical Lutheran Church operates the community.
Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are all accepted. Most families know the Medicare piece before they need it, since it covers short-term skilled care after a hospital stay. The Medicaid piece gets learned afterward, once savings have stopped covering a longer stay. Private pay is the third listed method.
Each resident’s day includes 3 hours and 59 minutes of nursing time.
Pets are allowed, so an animal can move in with its owner. Thirty-one on the Walk Score means a car for most trips, which lands hardest on anyone coming and going daily rather than staying put. Creative Aging and Lifelong Learning, and Intergenerational Learning are two named programs, one for learning that carries on and one for activities that mix the generations.














