EXCEPTIONAL CARE TRAINING CENTER

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Address: 2601 Woodlawn Road

Sterling, IL 61081

Phone: (815) 626-5820

Number of Beds: 85

GENERAL INFORMATION

Exceptional Care Training Center is a well designed residence for profoundly retarded, multiply handicapped adults. Our facility provides the very best homelike environment. Our skilled staff serves as an extended family whose care, concern, and attention are genuine and total. The homelike atmosphere of our attractive, colorful facility reveals both our philosophy and our attention to detail. We believe that every resident is unique and deserves to experience a meaningful and happy life. We support every resident's right to develop fully, to have warm social relations, to enjoy daily living, and to attain self-esteem.

We therefore create in our home not only a caring, friendly, and vital environment, but also excellent developmental programs that serve each resident's special needs. Our comprehensive habilitation and nursing programs stimulate learning, growth, and self-help skills.

FACILITY PROGRAM

Our special habilitation and activity programs are tailored to promote and to direct each resident's potential. They result from thorough analysis of the resident's potential. They result from the resident's abilities in motor development, self-care, socialization, language and communication. This analysis is conducted by our licensed physical therapists and professional staff and through the use of standardized tests and/or tests designed at Exceptional Care Training Center. Using these evaluations, we create a personalized total plan for each resident. This plan includes both short and long-term goals and is attained through concentrated learning activities.

The home's daily program emphasizes four areas:

SENSORY MOTOR INTEGRATION

Designed to promote the resident's purposeful interaction with his environment, our instructional activities apply the concept of the sensori-motor chain: sensory stimulation-integration-motor behavior-and feedback. Intensive stimulation involving the senses of touch, sight, motion, hearing, smell, and taste promotes the resident's awareness of self and surroundings.

SELF-HELP

Through these carefully designed programs we foster and enhance each resident's awareness of, and involvement in, dressing, eating, eating, bathing, and other necessary personal functions. This improved ability maximizes independence and self-care.

LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

Through daily living activities, we provide many varied opportunities for acquiring expressive and receptive language skills. To the best of their abilities, the residents develop usable communications systems, including responsive gestures, sign language, communication boards, and spoken words.

POSITIONING

Since proper body alignment is vital to physical functioning, we use specially designed equipment in combination with therapeutic handling and positioning to promote healthy body alignment and maximal functioning. Such guidance improves functional capabilities. The residents are encouraged to use these capabilities through participating in imaginative activities and playing with creative, educational materials.

Our progressive staff members dedicate themselves to fulfilling each resident's individualized training plan through daily one-to-one tutoring and interaction within small groups. Our programs also involve the residents in daily group activities.

NURSING PROGRAM

Our varied educational programs are complemented by our medical and nursing care. Loving care and sophisticated skills in combination maximally benefit every resident at the home. Our nursing staff directs the medical care of each resident twenty-four hours a day. Our physician is on call 24 hours a day and makes regular visits to the home for routine care as well as emergency calls.

The exceptional efforts of our teaching and nursing staffs are integrated through continuous intercommunication. In fact, our program goals are constantly reinforced not only by the inter-working of our therapists and nurses, but also by our direct care staff.

The direct care staff is responsible for the daily physical care: bathing, dressing, and feeding of their residents. Through specialized techniques of handling and stimulation, our staff provides affectionate care and attention.

Also very important to our total program are the positioning, handling, and care bestowed on our residents while they eat. And each resident has an individual menu of foods based upon personal dietary needs. Our registered dietitian plans all the menus.

Besides these daily activities, our residents enjoy periodic outings to neighborhood parks, community facilities, and special attractions. A highlight of the summer is our annual Family Day. These diverse opportunities help to broaden the resident's awareness of, and interest in, their environment.

ADMISSION POLICIES

Admission to Exceptional Care Training Center is open to all persons 18 and older, regardless of race, creed, sex, or national origin. As long as placement is appropriate, residents may remain at the home. Our interdisciplinary team requires a complete medical summary to evaluate the appropriateness of each admission. Final acceptance is based on each resident's developmental level and the home's capacity to meet the resident's needs appropriately. Prospective residents of the home are eligible for various state and federal aid programs that defray the costs of care. .

Upon admission to the home, each resident is given a comprehensive examination and evaluation on which the resident's program of care and training is based. The resident's progress within this program is closely monitored by our staff. The program is routinely re-evaluated to ensure its effectiveness and to prevent or resolve problems. Parents/Guardians are always welcome to visit our residents and to assess their progress-no appointment is needed. The family is encouraged to participate in development of the education program.

The home is licensed by the state as a skilled pediatric facility for the care of developmentally disabled persons. It meets all government rules, regulations, and standards concerning services, equipment, and physical plan. It is also approved for participation in Title XIX, Medicaid and is C.A.R.F. accredited.