Wartburg Adult Care Community, one of Westchester County”™s largest providers of services for the elderly, recently celebrated the opening of its $31 million Center of Excellence building on its 34-acre Mount Vernon campus.
The three-story, 75,000-square-foot building houses a rehabilitation center and an adult day care services center.
Designed for recuperating stroke, heart and surgery patients, the rehabilitation center includes four “neighborhoods,” each with 12 to 13 private bedrooms and a common lounge area, dining space and country kitchen. There are physical, occupational and speech therapy suites and a training apartment to help recovering patients learn again functional living skills before returning home.
Wartburg officials said the day care center offers both a medical and a social model of care. Among its services are podiatry; pain management; psychological and dementia-specific care; an arts program called Creative Aging; spiritual care; live entertainment; community trips and personal grooming services that include a whirlpool bath and beauty salon.
Sponsored by the Lutheran Church as a social ministry, Wartburg was founded as a children”™s orphanage in the aftermath of the Civil War. The nonprofit nursing home and assisted living facility operator is Mount Vernon”™s largest employer, providing jobs for about 800 area residents at its secluded campus off the Hutchinson River Parkway and Lincoln Avenue.
