Cottage Grove Place

Cedar Rapids, IA

Cottage Grove Place was challenged with not having enough skilled nursing beds to accommodate its increasing population. The existing Long Term Care Unit was not large enough to house the constantly expanding independent living population and Cottage Grove anticipated a need for providing a quieter dementia area to benefit residents with specific needs. The solution was to add a $4 million addition that increases their current skilled nursing bed count by 24, and also provides 12 less stimulating dementia beds for its residents.

Cottage Grove Place had made a commitment to its residents that the new addition would add more private skilled nursing rooms. However, the site wouldn’t allow for a typical private room layout, so a new, flexible private/semi-private room plan was developed by Shive-Hattery to satisfy their needs.

Other areas added to the project include a new physical therapy area with natural clerestory lighting, as well as a beauty shop that will be located at the main level entrance for use by the independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing residents.

The community's continuing care emphasis allows residents whose care needs increase with age to move from independent-living units to assisted-living units or skilled-nursing beds as needed.

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