Vol. 72 · Council GroveThe Spring Issue

A resident reading the morning paper over coffee at a table in a sunny, flowered kitchen

Front page · Council Grove, Kansas

The paper still comes at 6:30. So does the coffee.

A 48-bed nursing home on East Main, with licensed nurses around the clock, therapy for the trip back home, and neighbors who have known each other since grade school.

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A resident laughing over the sports page on the front porch

What sets us apart

Where we shine

An aide sharing a laugh with a resident on the parlor sofa

Physical and occupational therapy

Five or six days a week, aimed at one thing: getting you home safely.

Medicare Part A

A resident teaching her granddaughter to knit during a Sunday visit

Home visit before discharge

A therapist drives out to your house and checks the steps, the bathroom and the rugs.

Included

A resident holding a winning hand at the outdoor card table

Home-style meals and a Sunday pie table

Planned with a registered dietitian. Pie donated by three local churches in rotation.

Included

From the administrator's desk

Fifty years on East Main, and still a hometown place.

Neosho River opened in 1972 with twenty beds and a board made up of a banker, a pharmacist and two farm wives who were tired of driving to Emporia to visit their mothers. We have grown a little since then. We have not gotten any less local. Half our staff went to school down the street, and most of our residents can tell you whose granddaughter is bringing their lunch tray.

We care for people recovering from a hospital stay and people who live here for good. Either way, the day starts the same: the Council Grove paper on the front table, coffee in real mugs and somebody arguing about the weather.

— Lorraine Pfeifer, administrator

A longtime nurse in blue scrubs standing in the hallway

Care & services

The care column

Medicare Part A covers most short-term rehab after a qualifying hospital stay. We accept KanCare, Kansas Medicaid, for long-term care, plus most insurance and private pay. Our business office will check your benefits before admission.

Rehab & recovery

Physical and occupational therapy
Five or six days a week, aimed at one thing: getting you home safely.
Medicare Part A
Speech and swallowing therapy
Medicare Part A
Wound care and IV antibiotics
Overseen by our RNs, with the wound doctor in on Tuesdays.
Medicare Part A
Home visit before discharge
A therapist drives out to your house and checks the steps, the bathroom and the rugs.
Included

Nursing care

RNs and LPNs on duty around the clock
24/7
Long-term nursing care
Private and shared rooms, each with a window onto the yard or the river trees.
KanCare accepted
Medication management and diabetic care
Included
Visits from the medical director and local doctors
Your own family doctor from town is welcome to keep seeing you here.
Weekly

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Photo tour

Around the halls this month

A resident smiling as she deals the cards in the dayroom

A resident in a red cap stacking chips during Friday game night

A resident walking the hall with her rollator after lunch

A visitor kneeling to talk with a resident in her wheelchair under the trees

A resident with his rollator pointing out the roses to his wife on the garden path

Residents raising their arms during the morning chair-exercise class

A nurse checking a resident's blood pressure at the table by the plants

Our driver helping a resident board the wheelchair van for an appointment

Four of our nurses and aides crowding together for a staff photo

A resident settling into an armchair with the evening paper

Sample family reviews

Overheard in the dayroom

Dad farmed outside of town for sixty years. Here, the maintenance man takes him out to look at the wheat every June. Nobody asked him to.

Darla H.Daughter of a resident

After my hip surgery I wanted to go straight home. The therapist came to my house first and made my son move the throw rugs. She was right.

Wilma S.Rehab patient, 2024

My mother's roommate was her high-school bridge partner. They picked right back up where they left off in 1961.

Gary F.Son of a resident

When Mom was dying, they set up a cot so I could stay the night, and the night nurse brought me coffee at three in the morning. I will not forget that.

Sherri L.Daughter of a former resident

I live in Wichita. The charge nurse texts me a photo every Friday. It's usually Grandpa winning at pitch.

Trent O.Grandson of a resident

Help wanted

CNAs, nurses and cooks who like small-town work. We'll pay for your CNA class.

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604 E Main Street
Council Grove, KS
Park in the front lot off Main. The side porch door by the bird feeders is unlocked from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
(620) 555-0119
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