Bear Creek Assisted & Senior Living in Colorado Springs, Colorado is a senior living community that offers a complete continuum of care. This includes independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing care. If you’re a caregiver of a senior with high medical needs, and want to learn more about the Skilled Nursing program at Bear Creek in Colorado Springs, you’ve come to the right place.
What is a Skilled Care Community?
Skilled care communities are designed to help people recover and regain quality of life after health challenges. These communities add value to their lives, offering support and care that empowers them to return to their best. Some seniors only need short-term rehabilitation for recovery following an illness, surgery, or injury. Other seniors with chronic or declining health problems may need long-term skilled nursing care when they can no longer live safely at home.
Bear Creek’s Skilled Nursing program provides expert medical support, and the most care you can receive outside of a hospital. However, our community is also warm and homey, an environment that feels friendly and welcoming instead of cold and clinical. Unlike a hospital or clinical care setting, our Skilled Nursing community members live a resort-style lifestyle with upscale amenities, fun activities, and tons of friends.
Bear Creek Skilled Nursing in Colorado Springs: Highly Personalized Support
At Bear Creek, we know your loved one is more than just a patient. They are a unique person with unique likes and dislikes, passions, interests, and history. Our staff wants to know far more than your loved one’s diagnosis. Our trustworthy care team members will work to get to know you and your loved one to provide clear communication and a safe, smooth transition to skilled nursing care. Bear Creek’s Life Enrichment Director will create engaging experiences to ensure daily activities that are fun, enriching, and meaningful. Our staff will also create a personalized care plan for your loved one to manage all of their medical needs, as well as their emotional, social, and mental health needs. We also meet weekly to review and evaluate care plans, and keep families involved in decision-making.
A Smooth Transition
The transition to skilled nursing care can feel overwhelming. If you’re the caregiver of a loved one who needs skilled care, chances are you’ve experienced some setbacks, and you’ve probably been carrying a lot of the load where your loved one’s care is concerned. Bear Creek’s staff is here to make this transition as simple and seamless as possible. Because Bear Creek offers all levels of care, your loved one can easily move to Memory Care or Assisted Living after their stay in our Skilled Care wing. This provides a lot of reassurance, for both seniors who need care and their families. You won’t have to worry about researching other care communities, paying registration fees, moving your loved one’s possessions, transferring medical instructions and history, etc.
Because Skilled Nursing residents participate in activities with the rest of the community members and enjoy the same common areas, they’ll also already know other residents and staff members at the community. They’ll continue to receive the same warm, compassionate care and top-quality amenities if and when they transition to lower levels of care.
As an added bonus, because Bear Creek offers multiple levels of care, couples don’t have to be separated even if one person requires more support. Many families choose us because one spouse can be in Assisted Living or Memory Care while the other receives skilled nursing care—all under one roof.
Respite Care and Short-Term Rehabilitation
Bear Creek Assisted & Senior Living also provides short-term rehabilitation care in our Skilled Nursing wing. Many residents stay as little as 14-21 days, and then return home. Our team partners with local healthcare systems and will work to make the transition home seamless, too. And if your loved one should unfortunately require hospice care, we also work with hospice care partners to ensure comfort, dignity, and support for those needing end-of-life care. Additionally, we offer dedicated respite rooms for when caregivers need a temporary break or for short stays before transitioning home.
Comprehensive Skilled Nursing Care in Colorado Springs
Skilled Nursing Care provides an unprecedented level of support for your loved one. Your physician will provide our team with a detailed medical history and your loved one’s goals. Our team will then offer the expert, moment-by-moment support needed to help your loved one reach those goals. We offer many rehab services, including post-surgical recovery, wound care, and physical therapy. We can also support your loved one in managing their chronic condition. Our acclaimed Skilled Nursing unit has won the American HealthCare Association Bronze Quality Award, as well as the Telligan Blue Ribbon Award for Infection Prevention, among others. Bear Creek’s team has many caregivers and nurses who have been here for over 10 years, which helps us create real relationships built on trust and consistency.
Other services within our comprehensive care include:
- 24/7 skilled nursing support from an experienced, compassionate team
- On-site rehabilitation services (physical, occupational, and speech therapy)
- Medication management and chronic condition support
- Hospice and palliative care coordination
- Respite care options for short-term stays
- Emergency response system for safety and peace of mind
- Wound care and chronic condition management
- Specialized support for cardiac rehab and post-surgical healing
- Coordination with outside medical providers for seamless care
Resort-Style Amenities and Activities
One of our team members describes Bear Creek as “a cruise ship without the seasickness.” We strive to provide a resort-style experience for all of our residents, including those in Skilled Nursing Care. At Bear Creek, community members enjoy spacious, beautifully designed rooms, chef-prepared meals, welcoming outdoor courtyards, and newly remodeled common areas designed for relaxation and enjoyment. Each spacious private and semi-private room has large windows for natural light, individually controlled heating and air-conditioning for personalized comfort, bathrooms designed for safety and ease of use, weekly housekeeping & linen services, same-day maintenance responses for peace of mind, and complimentary laundry services.
Your loved one can also enjoy an on-site beauty salon and barber shop to help them maintain their confidence and quality of life. And, we even have a state-of-the-art therapy gym and in-house physical therapists (can your cruise ship do that?)!
While every room is beautiful, your loved one doesn’t need to spend all day in their bedroom, even in Skilled Nursing care. We also offer daily life enrichment programs tailored specifically for skilled care needs. Therapeutic activities are also offered to support your loved one’s recovery and long-term wellness. Additionally, we are surrounded by natural beauty and close to top medical centers. This makes Bear Creek in Colorado Springs a truly remarkable place for skilled nursing care. We won’t leave you out of the loop, either–a dedicated concierge team helps keep families informed and involved every step of the way.
Bear Creek: Exceptional Skilled Nursing Care in Colorado Springs
As you can see, Bear Creek Assisted & Senior Living offers truly exceptional skilled nursing care in Colorado Springs. We’d love to show you more and answer any questions you may have. Please give our friendly Family Advisors a call today!
