Nursing Home Communities in Sheridan, WY

"I toured Westview Health Care Center which is a level above assisted living. There's a lot more activity out there than the other place I toured, but then there were a lot more people too. They're more bound to be there and they're not as active to go somewhere else, but the care was pretty good. They had a caring staff. Their telephone service was not up to par with what the older people needed to have. In the one place I was in there, it was not user-friendly, you have to dial a number in first before you can call out, and there's no memory dial for older people. The rooms were fairly bare, a person could bring in some stuff, and they're not carpeted. Their basic building was newer and has been kept up. They had bird feeders in front of each patient's window, but they don't fill the bird feeders to have the birds come, and it was hard for somebody to get around in the winter to get to the bird feeders. They don't have a central living room type thing, but they have a central dining room area for these people. So that's kind of limiting their interaction with each other."

"I visited the Green House Living for Sheridan. They had a central living area and kitchen area and they had higher-end decorations compared to the other place I toured. The staff is right there, and they were interacting with the residents in the living areas. They were doing nail manicures for some of the people, they were sitting at a big table and they were all together. They had a big TV, they got a piano, they had a game board set up, and they had a nice deck to go out from the living room area to sit outside when the weather is agreeable. It's blocked off so nobody can wander off from them."