Assisted Living
As we age it is only natural that our health care needs may increase. Our FREE nursing assessment will help determine your personal needs, wants, and limitations. Some occupants need a helping hand to get their day started while others may need more interaction with our caregivers.
The additional nursing care charge can vary from $1,980 to $4,840 monthly. Our nursing assessment starts creating a care plan that is tailored to your needs and ensures that you pay for only what you need.
Call us at (509) 758-5260 to schedule your FREE assessment.
Evergreen Estates is conveniently located on the Tri-State Memorial Hospital & Medical Campus.
25% discount for 2 months following move-in!
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“8 Step” Admission Process
To comply with Washington Administrative Codes that regulate the Assisted Living industry in Washington State, we are required to accomplish a pre-admission assessment that will be performed by our Director of Nursing.
After you have had a tour of our facility you will then decide if this is the place for. Evergreen Estates has a deliberate and methodical admission process that we feel will ensure smooth and stressful admission to our facility. Below steps are listed so that you can follow our step-by-step process and reasons for these steps.
We find it best if you allow us to orchestrate this process and if we need help, we will ask. How long it takes depends on your healthcare provider to provide us with complete admission orders and with obtaining the needed medications from you or your pharmacy.
Due to the information that may be gathered during this process Evergreen Estates does not guarantee admission into our facility.
Evergreen Estates requires an administrative fee. This administrative fee ensures that the apartment you desire is reserved during the admission process and that we don’t show it to another potential occupant.
If during the nursing assessment process, it is determined that Evergreen Estates is unable to admit you to our community, your administrative fee is returned to you in full.
Individuals using the COPES program to assist with paying for their stay at the facility will not be charged an Administrative Fee.
A pre-admission nursing assessment is required by law and Evergreen Estates will arrange for nursing assessment to be done by our Director of Nursing or a designated person. In most instances this assessment will be a face-to-face process. Our nurse has the option of performing this assessment in your home, local care facility, hospital, or request that you come to the facility. We do not travel for than 50 miles from our facility to perform these assessments.
This assessment is designed to judge your abilities to live in our community safely. This process can be very lengthy, and we have seen these assessments take up to 2 hours. You may be required to demonstrate your physical abilities and will be asked some personal questions. It is important for you to answer the questions thoroughly and truthfully. The last thing you want to happen is that you are admitted to the community and later find that you will have to leave, as we are unable to care for you properly.
This assessment will determine the Assisted Living Add-on rate that when combined with your apartment’s rent will be your total monthly rate at Evergreen Estates.
After you move in your assessment is then updated continually over a 14-day period as we adapt to your healthcare needs. This finalized assessment is used to build your Care Plan; thus, your add-on rate may decrease or increase with your actual healthcare needs.
Individuals using the COPES program to assist with paying for their stay at the facility must have an additional assessment completed by their assigned State Case Worker. This assessment must be reviewed and accepted by the Executive Director prior to the individual being accepted for admission into the facility.
Based on our face-to-face assessment we will begin to gather information from those local healthcare agencies that we deem appropriate. This may mean that we request records from physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, state agencies and other similar types of communities. You may be requested to sign a document that allows us to obtain any needed information that we deem necessary. If we are not able to obtain the requested documents, your admission will be declined, and your administrative fee will be refunded as indicated above in Step 1.
Unless a court has ruled the person being admitted to our facility as incompetent, they must participate in the admission process. This includes the nursing assessment and all paperwork associated with the admission process. Those with Powers of Attorney may sign in addition with the person being admitted, but not just solely for the person.
If you or your loved one doesn’t have a physician in the local area, you will have to obtain one prior to being admitted to Evergreen Estates. If this is the case, you need to know that in most instances the physician will require an office visit.
Evergreen Estates is required by law to have signed admission orders by your local physician. Most physicians in the area are familiar with the process and with the pre-printed forms we have in our facility; it typically is a very smooth process.
This process, however, can be slowed if your physician is on vacation or is out of the office for a period. There is nothing Evergreen Estates can do to speed this process up if this is the case.
Once we receive admission orders the administrative fee mentioned in STEP 1 is deposited and then the terms of the Administrative Fee document are adhered to.
By this step in the process, we should have a date for you to start moving things into your apartment. Someone from the front office will sit down with you and review our Admission Agreement that you will be required to sign. This is also the time we obtain copies of all the documents that you were gathering that we mentioned in Step 4. You will also be provided with a package containing information on the facility and its rules, along with other documents and forms you may find useful.
After you have moved in, the Care Planning process begins. We start by gathering information concerning you or your loved one from the minute you walk in the door. Based on this information we start building what is called a “Care Plan”. This plan describes in detail what services our staff will need to provide and what your physical and mental limitations may be. We appreciate your input.
The finished Care Plan will be reviewed with you, and you will be required to sign it. Consider the Care Plan a written agreement on what we will accomplish and what you will accomplish while you are living in our community.
Frequently Asked Questions
Assisted living is for those who require the assistance of our nursing staff with daily activities such as maintaining adequate nutrition, remembering to take medications or dressing or bathing.
We do not have an age limit for our residents. However, the resident must have a need for Assisted Living Services.
Evergreen does not allow pets to reside inside of the facility. However, visitors may bring pets in as long as they are controlled by a leash or inside a pet container. Owners are required to clean up after their pets and are responsible for any damage the pet may cause.
Medication management is included in our basic rent charges. Our nursing staff will provide each resident with medication assistance based on their physician orders and our Director of Nursing oversight.
Evergreen Estates is a tobacco-free facility. The building and the outside grounds are smoke free.