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Residential Living and Building Features:

Room and Building Features:

• Smoke detectors and sprinkler system

• Emergency call system 24-hour response

• Centrally located elevators

• Enclosed veranda connecting to main building

• Free and lighted parking areas for resident's cars

• A private room with daily maid service.

The following services are included in your monthly fee:

• All utilities except telephone and cable TV.
•  Scheduled group transportation (occasional charge for special trips or admission fees).
• Bus to local churches on Sunday and in-house religious services
• Emergency call system 24-hour response.  Our medical staff will be in your room within minutes of your distress signal.
• Three nutritious meals a day served in the spacious dining room (no cooking is allowed in the individual rooms, but residents may have refrigerators.)
• Use of all activity areas including library,  exercise room, golf course, card and game room, private dining area, main lobby and other resident gathering areas and more.
• Campus security. 

• One haircut per month by the Home's Barber/Beauty Salon free of charge.

• Weekly laundry, and monthly dry cleaning allowance.

The following services are available on a fee-for-service basis:

• Guest meals
• Non-scheduled transportation
• Health care and physician services
• Barber/Beauty Salon - services in addition to one free hair cut per month

Health Care:

• If you need temporary care (minor illness, recuperating from surgery or an accident), the Home's nursing staff, aides and orderlies will tend to your every need in the Special Care unit.

• Once you are a permanent resident, after passing a three-month evaluation period, you will be eligible for day-to-day assisted living in Special Care, should you need help.

• Catered Care is also available.  This is limited assistance given to a resident in his/her own room or apartment.  Basic Catered Care is $15.00 per day.

• You may see the physicians who visit the "Home" during their regular visits to the "Home".  You will be responsible for any Medicare deductibles and any medicine and supplies you receive.

• Numerous physicians and specialists are available in Bedford, Roanoke and Lynchburg.

• The charge for in-patient care in the Special Care unit is $67 per day, in addition to your monthly fee.

• Carilion Bedford Memorial Hospital is 1.5 miles from the Home for residents who need hospital care.

• Hospitals are also located in Roanoke and Lynchburg (25 miles away).

• The Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center is located 35 miles from Bedford.

• The Home's Medical Records Department will help you with Medicare and other insurance claims for outside medical treatment.

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