St. Paul's Home (Bellville, Ill.) recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new $29.5 million nursing home, reports BND.com. The new retirement community will have person-centered household design with a homelike environment.
The goal of the new St. Paul's Home is to transform the old institutional culture to a new, culture of caring designed to treat the whole person; their physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and occupational needs.
The new facility will feaure individual households, each with their own hearth room, kitchen, dining area, patio or balcony and laundry; new Medicare rehabilitation households with private resident rooms and expanded therapy space; private gardens for memory care, rehabilitation, and independent living; a new chapel and community room with services broadcast to each household; beauty salon; and renovated restaurant-style dining spaces for independent residents.
When completed, the new retirement community will encompass 90 skilled-nursing beds (40 private rooms and 25 companion rooms), 18 memory-care beds (10 studio units and 4 companion units), 26 sheltered-care beds (8 one-bedroom units, 8 studio units and 5 companion units), and 53 independent-living apartments (28 one-bedroom units and 25 two-bedroom units.)
The Lawrence Group is the project architect and BSI Constructors is the general contractor/construction manager.
