The Pavilion - Health Care Center

Cole McKinney

Administrator

Sharon Janne

Director of Nursing

Gary Cook

Admissions Coordinator

Private or semi-private rooms with natural light windows
Large closets/wardrobes
All meals are provided in
an open dining format
(so that residents may eat
on their own schedule)
with selective menus accommodating special
diets as prescribed by a
physician
Housekeeping services
Laundering of personal
clothing and linens
Call system for assistance
at each bed and in each
bathroom (no overhead PA!)
Priority access to other KMH living options based on availability
Interdisciplinary team of
professionals (nursing,
resident assistant, therapy, restorative, dietician,
activity and social services)
24-hour security
Guest rooms
Gift shop,
beauty and barber shop
Chapel
Concierge services
On-site mail and
newspaper delivery
Activities, social events
and excursions
Transportation available
Garden/courtyards,
computer centers
and activity rooms on campus

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The Pavilion is a 120-bed licensed Medicare-certified skilled nursing facility that provides care for residents in need of short-term rehabilitation as well as those whose needs require long-term skilled nursing care. Our two story health care center is housed within the larger campus of KMH, allowing residents to easily visit and be visited by friends and staff as well as participate in events in other areas of our senior living community.

The Pavilion is staffed by nurses and certified nursing assistants 24 hours per day. While all staff members provide emotional support when needed, our social services staff members are also available to residents and their families. Of course, we also have a full time P.T./O.T. department, as well as a dietician, two chefs and a full dining services team. Our campus includes a wellness center with an indoor pool and hot tub, beauty and barber shop, chapel and chaplain services, an extensive library, art gallery, Veteran’s Hall, auditorium and multiple enclosed outdoor courtyards.

We offer much, but without offering our residents choices in the way they live their daily lives and the grace of a true home vs. a life without dignity in a hospital-like, institutional environment, we have not truly made a difference. It is our goal to be not only a mile wide, but a mile deep; we are striving to create an environment in which each of us would choose to live our most precious of days. To that end we have removed nurses’ stations, instilled a “person before task” code of behavior in our staff members and empowered our residents to make their own choices on everything possible: when they rise, when and what they eat, and how they spend their days. Our work just in the past 18 months has been recognized and honored by the Kansas Department on Aging, which presented KMH with the prestigious PEAK Award (Promoting Excellent Alternatives in Kansas nursing homes) in a ceremony attended by current residents; the direct benefactors of our efforts. With this award, KMH joins an elite number of established senior communities in Kansas recognized for extraordinary efforts in changing the culture of senior health care living. And we are just getting started. As we enter 2011 we are poised to begin an extensive remodeling of our campus, the results of which will be literal households within the current structure, complete with living room, dining room, full kitchen, den/game room and comfort-designed bathing areas.

Residents in the Pavilion are encouraged to participate in activities in the Pavilion as well as those throughout KMH. For residents unable to participate in groups, staff members provide individualized interaction. In addition, Pavilion residents can participate on the Residents Council or other committees, volunteer their talents, and are actively encouraged to help us with the Culture Change process and voice their opinion on the design and structure changes that will occur as we transition the Pavilion to households.