Wartburg opens Mount Vernon care center

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.