Badger Prairie Health Care Center

Badger Prairie Health Care Center sits in Verona, Wisconsin, just off Highway 151, and is a county-owned nursing home with 120 beds, run by Mary Ann Morse Healthcare Corp., and since the place's got a bit of everything in the continuum of care, folks come for a range of services like skilled nursing, memory care, rehabilitation therapy-physical, occupational, and speech therapy-and wound care, and they take care of medication management too, and you'll see that the staff, from Nurse Managers like Caron Sutterlin, Jessica Hungate, Kathy Fitzgerald, and Tammy Fuller, to the Director of Nursing Laura Klitzke, Infection Preventionist Krista Carpenter, Administrative Services Supervisor Laura Slavik, Finance Manager Chonh Her, and Administrator Bill Brotzman, is pretty dedicated, treating everyone with dignity and trying to make the place feel homelike. The staff works weekdays from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, and they're trained for personalized care, using tools like the Nursa App to manage shifts and stay on top of things, so you get that sense that the people working here know the residents well, and you'll find they focus a lot on making connections, not just with families but with all sorts of local community groups, hoping to enhance quality of life for the residents. You'll notice the place offers respite care, counseling and therapy-including for families and individuals-crisis intervention, addiction treatment, and many behavioral health services for all ages, plus a well-organized Memory Care program. They've also got a website section on disability and aging services and help with programs like FoodShare Wisconsin, Medicaid, health insurance, economic aid, transportation for seniors and veterans, and offer other support like emergency rental or utility help, employment and housing support, and nutrition. The center works with families and youth too, offering foster care resources, kinship care, youth justice, early childhood initiatives, vocational planning, disability support, protective services, and programs such as the Aging & Disability Resource Center (ADRC). For a broader reach, they work with the Day Resource Center called The Beacon, helping those homeless or at risk, and have a Behavioral Health Resource Center and programs for anger management, adult addiction treatment, and community involvement. People say the reputation is solid for quality care and respect for residents, and you'll find both rehabilitation and daily medical care take place in a setting that aims to stay involved with the community, so while you're close to places like Hyatt Place Hotel, Costco, Verona Area High School, and Epic Systems Corporation, there's still an effort to keep the atmosphere calm and like home for everyone living there.