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Dementia-trained caregivers
Most have been here more than ten years. They know every resident by name and by story.
24/7
Memory care in McPherson since 1926
A hundred harvests on the same hill.
Grange Hill opened as a home for retired farm families in 1926. Today it cares for 44 people living with dementia, still in the brick house on the hill, still run by the same community.
A hometown institution
Built by farm families, for farm families.
In 1925 the farmers of McPherson County pooled their wheat money to build a home on the hill for neighbors who could no longer work their land. My great-grandfather laid the brick. The house opened the next spring with eleven residents and a milk cow.
A century later, we care only for people living with Alzheimer's and other dementias, but the idea hasn't changed. The people who live here are our neighbors: the wheat farmers, schoolteachers, mechanics and church organists who built this county. We know their families, their congregations and often their grandchildren. We treat them the way the founders asked us to: as if the hill still belonged to them. In a way, it does.
— Karl Lindgren, administrator
- 1926first residents moved in
- 44residents in four households
- 3generations of Lindgrens as administrator
- 22 yrsaverage tenure of our nurses
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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Sunday dinner at noon
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and pie, with families at the table.
Weekly
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Canning kitchen
Peaches, pickles and apple butter every summer and fall, for anyone who wants to help.
SeasonalPhoto tour
A century on the hill
Sample family reviews
Letters from Grange Hill families
My grandmother lived here in 1971, my mother in 1998, and now my aunt. Same hill, same kindness.
Mom canned peaches every August for sixty years. Last summer she was in the Grange Hill kitchen, peeling peaches with her sleeves rolled up.
Dad doesn't know what year it is, but he still knows every word of 'Children of the Heavenly Father' in Swedish.
Ruth Ann took care of my father in 2003. Now she takes care of my mother. She remembered Dad's favorite pie.
The harvest drive is the one day Grandpa talks the whole time. He tells us which fields were his.
They labeled every one of Mom's old photographs with her. Now we have names for faces we'd never known.
Emily walked us through the KanCare application step by step. We'd been dreading it for a year.
My wife's quilt square is in this year's baby quilt. She doesn't remember making it. I'll never forget it.
Sunday dinner at Grange Hill is the best meal in McPherson. I'm not exaggerating.
When Dad passed, Pastor Brooks and three caregivers were with him. They called us first thing and stayed until we arrived.
Our team
The people of Grange Hill
Karl Lindgren, LACHA
Administrator
Ruth Ann Kessler, RN
Director of Nursing
Dr. Lena Okoye
Medical Director
Pastor Daniel Brooks
Chaplain
Rooms & suites
Rooms in the old house and the new wings
Every room is private. Rooms in the 1926 house have tall windows and original oak trim.
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Old house room
In the 1926 house, with tall windows and original oak trim.
- Original oak trim
- Tall windows
- Private
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Garden wing room
In the 1994 wing, opening toward the courtyard and the bell.
- Courtyard view
- Private bath
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Orchard wing room
Faces the old apple trees and the morning sun.
- Orchard view
- Desk nook
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Room with private bath
An accessible bath and roll-in shower.
- Private bath
- Roll-in shower
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Your room, your things
Bring the quilt, the photos and the cat if she's calm. We'll help make it home.
- Your furniture
- Your photos
- Pets by arrangement
We were built by neighbors, for neighbors. For a hundred years we have kept the same promise: to care for the people who built this county as if the hill still belonged to them.
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Readers’ Choice · Best Memory Care
- Chamber of Commerce · Century Business Award
- Regional Medical Center · Preferred Partner
- County Historical Society · Preservation Award
- Statewide Aging Network · Person-Centered Care
- Area Agency on Aging · Community Partner
- Community Foundation · Legacy Partner
- Local Churches Council · Partner
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Visit
Find us in McPherson
- 1206 N Grange Avenue
McPherson, KS
Park in the brick lot behind the main house. The ramp entrance is under the white portico. - (620) 555-0161
- Text us
- office@grangehill.example
- Grange Hill Memory Care
Tour & office hours
- Tours, Mon – Sat9a – 5p
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 4:30p
- Families visitAny time
Families visit any time. Sunday dinner at noon is the busiest hour of the week.
There's always pie on the hill.
Call the office or ask for Karl by name. Most of McPherson already knows the way.