Elim New Harmony
Sponsored By: Elim Homes
New Harmony, MN
IN BRIEF:
76 Bed Skilled Nursing Facility
THE CHALLENGE:
- Organize units into neighborhood clusters for care classification
- Provide community friendly space for visiting families
- Remove the institutional feel of the outdated environment.
THE SOLUTION:
The newly renovated facility now features multiple neighborhoods with each housing separate dining and activity space. The completed design provides improved resident access and service delivery.
The completed program for the skilled nursing facility now offers:
- Long term care
- Transitional sub-acute care
- Rehabilitative care with improved therapy spaces
- Alzhiemer's care
- Hospice

BEFORE RENOVATION
The facility possessed a common institutional model of large group dining/activity spaces
and common hospital-like corridors.