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Show :f& I ui . J 1 1 ill n- I ' ( V 'fa V ce to home MARTIN HARRIS Times Writer For 11 years, Bee Hive Homes has been providing assisted living services for individuals in a warm and loving home environment. Bee Hive Homes has 11 locations in the valley. Each home houses 8 to 10 residents, resi-dents, allowing for a personal touch. "Each of the.jacilities has "excellent ' caregiverrwho-enjoy caregiverrwho-enjoy their work and many are certified Nursury Assistants," owneradministrator owneradminis-trator Randy Cottle said. They are loving and patient and dedicated to caring for the elderly." The facilities are small houses, 8 to 16 residents. No ' one is forgotten. We are constantly con-stantly checking on and interacting inter-acting with the residents. We are a family at Bee Hive Homes. The staff even on the days they don't work will call in or come by to see how the residents are doing. The residents resi-dents are also concerned about each other, they begin to feel like this is their own family." "We have an excellent resident resi-dent support system with our entire staff working together to make sura the residents are well taken care of in all I ' : I Bee Hive Homes are Level I assisted living facilities that feature family style living in a residential setting for those who are ambulatory and do not require full-time nursing care. It is a planned environment environ-ment that allows the residents resi-dents to enjoy a quality lifestyle with group associations associa-tions that' still offer the utmost in privacy. - " je - i- - Bee Hive Homes has 11 locations In the valley. Each home houses 8 to 10 residents, resi-dents, allowing for a personal touch. Each of the facilities has excellent caregivers care-givers who enjoy their work and many are certified Nursury Assistants. J ' i; i' T iAw Residents are allowed to bring their own furniture and personalize personal-ize rooms In other ways if they so desire. Each private room comes complete with a bed, dresser, private half bath, voice-activated intercom system and cable television and telephone tele-phone hookups. Residents are allowed to bring their own furniture and personalize rooms in other ways if they so desire. Residents eat the home-cooked home-cooked meals (planed by a R.D.) together in a family-style family-style setting and they are encouraged to participate together in activities in the living areas, rather than spending long hours in their rooms by themselves. Activities include arts and crafts, music, curreat events discussions and games such as bingo. Physical conditioning condition-ing is maintained by attended walks indoors and outdoors. Bee Hive Homes offers 24-hour-a-day supervision with exceptional staff members who are trained in quality geriatric care, yet committed to a home and family environment. environ-ment. Some of those services include: 24-hour care; an on-call on-call RN to assess residents and oversee medication administration; assistance with all aspects of daily living, liv-ing, daily housekeeping and laundry service. Bee Hive Homes also provides pro-vides a day-carerespite service serv-ice for those whose primary caregivers need a little break. "We are now offering to bring people in for just a day or for a week or two if there are rooms available," Cottle said. "We offer the same services to these temporary tempo-rary occupants as we do to our long-term residents." Bee Hive Homes is a state-licenced state-licenced facility and ' holds membership in the Utah State Assisted Living Association and the Assisted Living Federation of America. For more information, call Randy Cottle at 367-3669. Orem Locations: '67 West 1200 North, 1027 East 800 North, 1045 East 800 North and 98 South 800 East American Fork: 164 West 200 South and 272 West 500 North Payson: 661 East 700 South Salem: 536 East 500 South Pleasant Grove: 60 East 1200 North, 565 East 300 South Spanish Fork: 858 East 100 South This Senior Section was published by Utah Valley Publishing for the Orem-Geneva Times, New Utah and Spanish Fork Press. Some article content was provided by the individual advertisers. |