About Our Care

At Ridgecrest, we believe in person-centered care. We tailor our services to serve individual residents and their ever-changing needs. In order to do this, we offer a variety of specialized programs including rehabilitation, long-term nursing care, dementia care and behavior care.

Excellent care is supported by our dedicated and highly trained team. Key department heads at Ridgecrest Healthcare have been working together for a minimum of five years and in some cases for over 15 years. The Ridgecrest team has been empowered and has committed themselves to the success of the facility, which makes this team extremely strong, unique and creative. Listed below are some special distinctions:

• Director of Nursing – Wound Care Certified
• In-House Physical & Occupational Therapists
• Behavior Unit Coordinator – Dedicated to the
  behavior programs and many years of experience in the field
• Activity Director – Certified Recreational Therapist

Skilled Nursing

A state-of-the-art rehabilitation clinic at Ridgecrest offers a variety of therapeutic services provided by on-site, licensed Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists. Individualized programs for patients result in optimal outcomes. The facility has a large gym dedicated for the sole purpose of one-on-one physical, occupational and speech therapies. State-of-the-art equipment includes parallel bars, stairs, weights, kitchen facilities, standing frame, tilt table, arm bikes, an ultrasound machine, E-Stim, paraffin wax and pulley weights.

Ridgecrest is well known for behavior units and specialized dementia and advanced dementia units as well as psych-related illnesses, medically compromised cases focusing on rehabilitation for orthopedic, stroke recovery and wound care. Ridgecrest is always fine tuning an interdisciplinary team approach to care in order to better serve residents.

The behavior units and the dementia units are secured, each with dedicated dining rooms, activity centers and outdoor courtyards. The rehabilitation and long-term care units also have ample dining, activity, and outdoor courtyard space in addition to a large therapy room. Since Ridgecrest has specialized care programs, this means the staff is also very specialized. The staff assigned to work on the behavior units and the dementia units receive initial and weekly training by a Clinical Psychologist that is tailored to individual resident needs.

Awards

• CMS Nursing Home Quality Initiative
• American Health Care Assn Campaign for
  Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes
• Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia Training Grant Recipient
• Arizona Health Care Association’s 2006 Resident of the Year Award
• Arizona Health Care Association’s 2007 Finance Professional of the Year
• Arizona Health Care Association’s 2008 Social Service Dept. of the Year