Hillcrest

Walker, MN - Assisted Living

Hillcrest is a lovely assisted living community in Walker, Minnesota. It is within exceptional Cass County which is part of the North Star State.

We are licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health as a Comprehensive Home Care provider. We renew this license annually, and are "surveyed", or inspected, by the Health Department.

We are also registered as a Housing With Services provider, and fulfill the requirements to classify ourselves as "Assisted Living". The phrase "Assisted Living" can be used by a wide variety of facilities, from one providing a few basic services with one check per day, to a facility who cares for residents who are bedridden and can do almost nothing for themselves.

We provide a wide variety of medical services, too numerous to cover completely. The simple summary is this: we want to provide a place you can move into, get settled in, and stay. We don't want to see folks uprooted and moved repeatedly. Often, people come to us needing very little: maybe just a little help bathing and getting dressed (in addition to housekeeping and meals). On the other end of the spectrum, we are licensed to provide care that has traditionally been thought of as nursing-home level care. We have a Hoyer lift and a sit-to-stand lift, in addition to other assistive equipment. We are able to do the monitoring and injections for diabetics who can't do their own. We can legally care for residents with feeding tubes. Typically, we admit residents with minimal or moderate needs, then work hard to keep meeting new needs as they arise.

Prior to admission, one of our RN's (registered nurses) will perform an assessment. Additionally, Minnesota law requires a nurse to perform periodic assissments. However, our residents see an RN much more frequently than that! Nurse visits are made to answer questions, monitor for potential problems, and keep care plans accurate and appropriate. The nurse communicates with the resident's physician(s) and pharmacy. Besides being experienced and medically competent, our nurses are patient and compassionate, and spend quite a bit of time just reassuring residents and visiting with them.

The RN's delegates some duties to the carefully trained staff who are here around the clock. Routine activities of daily living, medication administration, and some clinical monitoring are examples of duties that the nurse can delegate to care providers.

The RN's oversee the medication system and the ordering and administration of all medications, both prescription and over-the-counter.

The nurses are responsible for the staff training and documentation of that training.

At Hillcrest, our residents receive high-quality care in a home-like setting, provided by 24-hour staff that truly care. We enjoy those lingering conversations around the dinner table as much as residents do!

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