Champaign County Nursing Home

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Champaign County Nursing Home
500 Art Bartell Rd.
Urbana, IL 61802

Phone: (217) 384-3784
Fax (217) 337-0120

email: ccnh@co.champaign.il.us

Mission Statement

The Champaign County Nursing Home provides compassionate long-term, rehabilitative, and memory care services reflective of the community we serve, and in a manner respective of our 100 year history. Our Adult Day Care provides exceptional daily respite services for local caregivers and members of our community who prefer the safety and comfort of a day care center to staying at home. We give residents and clients something to look forward to each morning, and something to dream about each night.
Promises

Champaign County Nursing Home residents are enveloped in a community of friendship and respect supported by the following philosophies:

Neighborhoods

Each living area is designated as a Neighborhood where residents enjoy the creature comforts of our beautiful surroundings and the social benefits of living in a closely-knit community. Neighborhood direct care, housekeeping, and activity staff are consistently providing care within the same Neighborhood each day; developing a close relationship with each resident they serve. Neighborhood décor and resident rooms reflect the personalities as each resident adds a personal touch to their living area. By design, residents are served by the city workers and enjoy the company of their Neighbors.

Dining

The dining experience is designed to be a collection of friends and relatives enjoying the fruits of their labor and strengthening the bonds of their relationship. We embrace the connection between the dining experience and lifestyle satisfaction. As a result, residents enjoy restaurant-style dining at each meal, selecting from a menu and ordering each component of each meal to match their individual preferences. Wait staff work with residents to find the perfect combination of foods to optimize the dining experience. Scratch cooking is the rule rather than the exception.

Lifestyle

Residents work with the entire care team to cater services to their personal preferences. The residents we serve have spent their entire lives of 60, 70, 80, 90+ years caring for their families and our community. We are ever mindful of those contributions and will mold our services to match virtually any lifestyle preference. When you select the Champaign County Nursing Home, you have chosen to be included in the rich history of this diverse community, linked forever to our 180,000 brothers and sisters that are our Neighbors.

Frequently Asked Questions about Adult Day Care at Champaign County Nursing Home

1. Can you tell me a little bit about what you do there?

We are a day program. We’re open Monday through Friday from 7:00 am - 5:00 pm. Everyone who comes here goes home at night. While people are here, they can participate in a wide variety of programs and get help with some of their personal care needs. There is a nurse on duty while we are open. She can dispense medications, assist clients with health care concerns, and monitors each client’s general health and well-being. The center feels like a senior center, a warm, friendly place to spend time with other people.

2. What kinds of activities do you do there?

We offer three activities to choose from in the morning, a chair exercise program before lunch, and three to four different activities to choose from in the afternoon. We vary our programs according to the people that we have coming here, but we do follow a basic formula. In the mornings, our programs are more therapeutically oriented. We try to provide a program that will help with cognition, a program that will help with socialization, and a program that will help with physical skills. Now, we don’t tell the clients that, we tell them their choices, and want them to just enjoy themselves while they receive benefit from the programming. A typical Monday offering is a current events program, bowling, and a group called, “I Know That,” which focuses on the use of automatic memory to help with cognition, communication, and social skills. Clients who attend the “I Know That” group may complete proverbs one week and discuss what they mean. Another week may find them remembering old advertising jingles. Our chair exercise program has two purposes. The first is to maximize range of motion at all joints and the second is to keep people as active as possible. Research shows that the more physically active a person is, the less depressed they are. Unfortunately, the more depressed someone becomes, the less they want to move, so we strongly encourage all of our participants to attend the exercise program. Afternoons are more recreationally focused. Participants can play cards, Bingo, do a word game, attend a Bible Study, or reminisce about the old days. Programs vary according to who attends and what their interests are.

3. Do you ever take your people on outings?

We do, depending on the group that we have. We have taken our people fishing at various places in the county, to Rockome Gardens, Allerton Park, Meadowbrook Park, the U of I Fire Institute for a program, Curtis Orchard, the malls for shopping trips, garage sales, and to brown bag Krannert concerts. We do more outings in the spring and fall, when the weather is most pleasant.

4. How much does ADC cost?

The cost is $65 per day and $8.50 each way for transportation.

5. Are there any “hidden” costs?

We are required to prove, on a yearly basis, that none of our clients have tuberculosis. If we do the Tb skin test here, there will be a charge of $1.30 on the bill. Our fee does not include physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical supplies, medications, dentist services, and beauty/barber services. However, we do not provide any of these services without permission of the client and/or their caregiver, so there are no surprises in the bills.

6. Is there a contract to sign?

We do not require a contract at this time. We bill only the days that the client actually attends and only the transportation units that a client actually uses. We simply ask that our bill be paid monthly so we can pay our bills and if there is a problem with the bill, that we be notified quickly so we can address it.

7. How often do you bill?

We bill monthly and send our bills to your home. Bills typically are mailed out the second week of the month following the month that the bill is for.

8. Is there financial assistance available?

Yes, while public aid and Medicare do not pay for adult day care, the VA does, when funding is available, as does the Illinois Department on Aging. For information on Department on Aging funding, please call the local administrators of that program, the Cumberland Associates, Champaign, IL, (217) 403-9840. For information on VA funding, please call the Danville VA outpatient social work department at 554-3000. Use the funding hand out attached to help answer this question.

9. Do you ever have people come half days?

While this is permissible, we do not recommend it. Our program is a good respite for the caregiver, but we believe we also have something to offer our participants. Typically, when participants attend only half days, they sit and wait for their caregiver to return, rather than make friends with the other people at the center. We want the people who come here to be happy and to feel like they are part of our group. There are times, though, when someone needs to attend only half days due to physical limitations or maybe someone will leave early for a doctor’s appointment, so we don’t completely rule out the possibility of half days. The rate for a half day is $35.

10. How do you convince people to go?

Each person is motivated to attend by different things. Use “10 Ways to Tell Mom about Adult Day Services,” which is attached, to help answer this question.