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Help with bathing, dressing and grooming
At the times you choose, from the same small team of caregivers.
Care plan
Assisted living & memory care · Manhattan, Junction City & Council Grove, Kansas
Room to breathe in the Flint Hills.
Three assisted living homes on the edge of the tallgrass prairie, each with caregivers awake around the clock, a small memory care neighborhood, and a kitchen that still bakes its own bread.
- 1997the year we opened in Manhattan
- 3homes across the Flint Hills
- 162apartments and suites
Why we're here
Good care should not mean leaving the place you love.
Most of the people who live with us grew up within forty miles of where they sleep tonight. They taught school in Wamego, ranched south of Alma, served at Fort Riley or worked thirty years at the university. When the house got to be too much, they did not want to move to a city they didn't know. Neither did their families.
So since 1997 we have built small: three homes, about fifty apartments each, in the three towns our families asked for. Each has the same standards, the same training and the same people to call. And each looks out on a lot of sky.
Celia Montoya-Pratt, Executive Director
What sets us apart
Three things families mention first
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Secured neighborhood and courtyard
Residents walk freely inside and out, safely, among raised beds and a covered porch.
Memory care rate
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Physical and occupational therapy
In our Manhattan therapy gym and in each home's wellness room, when your doctor orders it.
Medicare Part B- 1997the year we opened in Manhattan
- 3homes across the Flint Hills
- 162apartments and suites
- 14years, the average tenure of our home directors
Photo tour
Life on the prairie
Rooms & suites
Apartments, cottages and suites
Every apartment has a private bath with a walk-in shower, emergency call, and windows big enough to watch the weather roll in.
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Prairie studio
One bright room with a kitchenette and a tall window toward the hills.
- Kitchenette
- Walk-in shower
- Emergency call
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One-bedroom apartment
A separate bedroom, a living room for your recliner and a kitchenette for the morning coffee.
- Separate bedroom
- Walk-in closet
- Kitchenette
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One-bedroom deluxe
Corner windows, a fireplace and room for a dining table and the family china.
- Corner windows
- Electric fireplace
- Full refrigerator
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Two-bedroom apartment
For couples, or for a bedroom and a study, a sewing room or a guest room.
- Two bedrooms
- Two baths
- Patio
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Prairie cottage
Six cottages at the Council Grove home, each with a front porch and two rocking chairs, and every service of the main house.
- Front porch
- Attached garage
- Two bedrooms
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Memory care suite
A private suite in the secured neighborhood, with a memory box by the door and a window onto the courtyard.
- Private bath
- Courtyard view
- Memory box
Our team
The people who run our homes
Celia Montoya-Pratt
Executive Director
Karen Lindholm, RN
Regional Director of Nursing
Dr. Abena Mensah, DO
Medical Director
Gerald Simmons
Home Director, Manhattan
Sample family reviews
Families across the Flint Hills
Dad ranched south of Council Grove for sixty years. From his window he can see the same hills. He says it's the only reason he agreed to move, and I believe him.
Monique helped us get Dad's Aid and Attendance approved in four months. She knew which forms the VA would kick back before we sent them.
Mom taught first grade for thirty-four years. The memory care team gives her a reading circle every morning. She still corrects their grammar.
The therapy pool got me walking again after my knee. I'm back to the walking club and I lead the pace now.
Everything was on one sheet of paper before we signed. Two years in, the bill has never had a surprise on it.
I live in Seattle. Tasha sends me a photo every Friday. Last week it was Mom holding a tomato the size of a softball.
My husband is in memory care and I'm in assisted living, same building. I have lunch with him every day.
The bread. I don't know what else to say. The bread.
Karen called me at six in the morning because Dad seemed off. By noon he was on antibiotics, and he never went to the hospital.
They took Mom on the spring burn drive. She talked about the fire lines on the hills for a week.
Dad is a retired professor. They found him a seat at the lecture series and a ride every week. He feels like himself.
When Mom passed, Pastor Lind sat with us half the night. The caregivers came to the funeral. That is who these people are.
Now hiring
Caregivers, nurses and cooks in three Kansas towns.
Out here neighbors still check on each other. We just made it our whole job: someone awake all night, someone who knows your name, and the prairie right outside the window.
Come see the sky from our porch.
Schedule a tourAdmissions
Moving in, step by step
Tasha is your one contact from the first call to the first month, whichever home you choose.
- A free nursing assessment at home or in the hospital
- Every fee on one page before you decide
- A floor plan to measure furniture against
- Movers we trust, and pictures hung before the first night
- A welcome supper with your new neighbors
- A call to the family after the first week and the first month
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Manhattan Readers’ Choice · Best Assisted Living
- Regional Senior Living Awards · Memory Care
- Area Chamber · Small Business of the Year
- Family Satisfaction Survey · 96% would recommend
- Regional Business Journal · Top Workplaces
- State Assisted Living Association · Member
- Veteran-Friendly Employer · Recognized
- Dementia-Friendly Community · Partner
- Local Hospital System · Preferred Partner
- County Fair · Grand Champion Cherry Pie
Visit
West of town, up Konza Ridge
- 3400 Konza Ridge Drive
Manhattan, KS
Visitor parking is in front of the main entrance under the pin oaks. The covered drop-off is level with the door. - (785) 555-0129
- Text us
- hello@flinthillsliving.example
- Flint Hills Assisted Living
Tour & office hours
- Tours, Mon – Sat9a – 5p
- Tours, Sunday1p – 4p
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 5p
- Families visitAny time
Sunday tours end with pie and coffee in the dining room.
Come see the sky from our porch.
Call or text to schedule a tour at any of our three homes. The coffee is always on.