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Neighborhoods at St. Elizabeth offers seniors a warm, inviting residence

By Nancy Menefee Jackson of the Catholic Review

January 11, 2011

Charmaine Scalley gets a drink at the snack station that is accessible 24 hours a day.

This is not your father’s nursing home.

In fact, it’s hard to realize that the Neighborhoods at St. Elizabeth really is a nursing home, since it totally lacks that institutional touch.

A pleasant hearth room that resembles a great room – complete with fireplace and flat-screen TV – replaced what was once a nursing station, and the Silestone counters and designer tile in the bathrooms give the feel of a high-end home. The doorways to individual rooms are styled to look like the front door of a row home, framed in molding and flanked by a mailbox, wall sconce and attractive address plate.

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