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Having access to quality healthcare is important for everyone, especially as we grow older. Whether you are new to the Cape Fear Region or are already a resident and are considering making the switch to a new physician, the process can feel overwhelming. How do I know which doctor to choose? What if the specialized medical services I require aren’t located in the immediate area? Feeling comfortable with your healthcare provider and knowing that they are conveniently located within your local area are important. Luckily, the Cape Fear Region is home to several established hospitals and reputable specialists alike. This convenience and piece of mind that comes with most all medical needs can be addressed in your own community is something that residents have come to appreciate and rely on.
AREA MEDICAL CARE
New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) is the centerpiece of the region’s medical scene. While NHRMC has been serving the region for over fifty years, Novant Health recently added it to their portfolio of medical centers. This acquisition has allowed for a collaboration with UNC Health and the UNC School of Medicine, further expanding the medical expertise and opportunities available to residents of the region. Over the decades, NHRMC has grown their services in the tri-county area to a total of 855 licensed beds among three hospital campuses, offering a variety of specialty centers including cardiac, obstetrics, trauma, vascular surgery, intensive care, rehabilitation, and psychiatry. Moreover, it is the primary referral hospital in the region. From walk-in emergency services to inpatient and outpatient services and a variety of specialists, NHRMC has been meeting the needs of our community and their continued growth reflects a commitment to
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continue to help and heal residents in our area.
Pender Memorial Hospital, located in Pender County, works with NHRMC to provide healthcare to local communities such as Burgaw, Topsail Beach, Hampstead, and Surf City. Their emergency care department is open 24 hours a day and staffs local surgeons as well as surgeons who travel from Wilmington to meet the needs of patients closer to their home. Pender Memorial’s offerings include endoscopy, skilled nursing, and rehabilitation just to name a few. Their compassionate staff are committed to provide quality care to each patient in need of care. And while their services and staff are exemplary, the convenience that the medical center brings to the residents of Pender County makes living in this area even more appealing. Also a member of the Novant Health family is Brunswick Medical Center, located in the central-Brunswick County town of Boliva. Brunswick Medical Center provides the highest quality of care to each patient in a safe and comfortable environment. With almost 200 physicians and specialists, 450 employees, and 150 volunteers, Brunswick Medical Center meets and exceeds the needs of their patients. Offering a comprehensive list of services that include specialty and progressive care units, imaging and laboratory services, and physical therapy, the center serves to treat patients with preventative and ongoing care. While Brunswick Medical Center manages thousands of patients each year, they are not the only hospital located in Brunswick County. Dosher Memorial Hospital can be found just blocks away from the waterfront in the city of Southport. This hospital is also close to area beach communities such as Oak Island Beach and Caswell Beach. The team at Dosher is committed to providing excellent care to their community by offering medical services that the community needs close to home such as cardiology, orthopedic surgery, vascular surgery, and more. The hospital also offers a walk-in primary and urgent care center on Bald Head Island during tourist season. Wilmington Health, a network of primary care, urgent care, and multi-specialty providers, has been a mainstay in the greater Wilmington area for over 40 years. With locations
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Seniors today don’t have to give up an active, rewarding lifestyle to enjoy the peace of mind that comes from right-sizing their home and having continuing care in place at Bradley Creek Health Center should they need it.
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WE ARE LIBERTY
Liberty Healthcare is a Wilmington based, family-owned company that has been helping people manage their healthcare and residential needs for more than 145 years. Principal owners, Sandy and Ronnie McNeill, are proud to call this area home, and are the fifth generation of the McNeill family that has been immersed in the healthcare industry. The company founders, who opened their first pharmacy in 1875, established Liberty’s core values of quality, honesty, and integrity that guide us to this day.
LIBERTY SENIOR LIVING
Liberty Senior Living is the development and operations management company for Liberty’s senior living division. We oversee the development, financing, acquisition and operation of independent living, assisted living memorycare and Life Plan Communities. For more than 30 years, Liberty Senior Living has been offering seniors access to a full continuum of services in luxury communities built in some of the most desirable locations in the Southeast. With two locations here in Wilmington, Carolina Bay at Autumn Hall and Brightmore of Wilmington which includes The Kempton and The Commons on the Brightmore campus, Liberty Senior Living is posed for growth and a continued commitment to helping seniors live life to their fullest.
COMMUNITY OFFERINGS
Liberty Senior Living communities have been designed for active seniors. They are filled with fabulous amenities and an abundance of activities for promoting physical, mental, social, educational and spiritual well-being. We have specifically designed and/or acquired communities that are able to offer our residents whole-person wellness, distinctive dining, life enrichment, and top-class amenities and services. With the active senior in mind, Liberty has branched out into the Active Adult division with its first community, Inspire Coastal Grand, just opened in Myrtle Beach, SC with a future location near Brunswick Forest in Leland, NC.
Our community and service offerings combine housing, health care, hospitality, and ancillary services. Our senior living communities offer residents a state-of-the-art home-like setting, assistance with activities of daily living and, in some communities, licensed skilled nursing services. We also provide ancillary services including home health, hospice, in-patient short-term rehabilitation, long-term care, and out-patient services to residents
in many of our communities as well as seniors living outside of our communities. We offer our residents the opportunity to “age-in-place” by providing a full range of service options as their needs change. With a diverse range of community and service offerings, we are positioned to take advantage of favorable demographic trends over time.
WHOLE-PERSON WELLNESS AND LIFE ENRICHMENT
One of our core values at Liberty is whole-person wellness, the integration of a person’s multiple dimensions, including physical, nutritional, spiritual, social and intellectual, into positive beliefs and meaningful activities. We encourage all of our residents to participate in this program. Our goal is to help our residents remain at their highest level of functional abilities, and even to improve their fitness and wellness once they move into one of our communities.
Wellness is not just about physicality. We know that engagement and socialization play a crucial role in the mental health and wellbeing of our residents. Isolation can diminish the immune system and have other negative impacts on physical and emotional health.
Our wellness facilities and equipment are state-of-the-art, and all of our wellness instructors are certified. Energetic instructors conduct both land and water classes, as well as training on the stationary equipment. Classes are tailored to residents’ requests and participation, from yoga to tai chi, water aerobics to line dancing. Residents design their own community program based on their interests, and our wellness instructors are also available for coaching and personal training upon request.
We encourage residents to indulge their current passions and discover new ones as they embrace all life has to offer.
“At Liberty Senior Living, we offer all sorts of activities. There are classes and cooking demonstrations, outings and social groups, concerts or movies, lifelong learning opportunities, book clubs, women clubs and walking clubs,”
Haley Norris, Regional Wellness and Enrichment Director.
AMENITIES AND SERVICES
As a resident of a Liberty Senior Living community, you’ll let go of house and yard upkeep and embrace all the services and amenities we offer to ensure your comfort, convenience and safety.
Weekly cleaning, grounds maintenance/ landscaping, and concierge services, such as scheduled transportation and dry cleaning pick-up and drop-off, round out the offerings that help you let go of the drudgery while focusing on fun and personal fulfillment.
WHAT LIBERTY HAS TO OFFER:
DISTINCTIVE DINING Liberty’s Senior Living communities offer distinctive dining and a remarkable range of culinary choices for residents and their guests. The various venues and menus afford residents a wide range of healthy, dining options. Best of all, our communities offer dining dollars or a decling monthly balance which are including the the monthly rent that can be used at the residents’ discretion. This policy allows residents the flexibility to dine out with friends without paying for meals they are not eating at the community. · fully equipped fitness center complete with a salt water pool and hot tub · a professionally staffed day spa and salon · multiple dining venues; several living rooms, libraries and game rooms; · plus an art studio and various meeting spaces · onsite security and emergency response services, giving both you and your family invaluable peace of mind
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Residents of Brightmore of Wilmington love the living choices, abundant resort-like amenities and nearly endless social engagements available to them. Here, residents and their families will love the emphasis on nutritious dining options, whole-person wellness and the peace of mind that comes from having continuing care at The Kempton and Commons in place should they need it. Call 910.507.7834 to schedule a visit and don’t just live here...LOVE IT HERE. 2324 S. 41st Street, Wilmington, NC 28403 BrightmoreOfWilmington.com
across the tri-county area, from Jacksonville to Leland, Wilmington Health has earned a stellar reputation in the community for their convenient locations, variety of specialty care, and expert medical staff. Some of their specialties include ear nose and throat, hearing aid services, neurology, and robotic surgery. Since they began serving the community in 1971, Wilmington Health has grown considerably to continue to meet the needs of our growing region. Wilmington Health has become a high-performance health care system in itself that continues to add to its offerings to enhance patient care and convenience.
HEALTHCARE OPTIONS
Wilmington is also home to a wide variety of complementary and alternative options such as chiropractic centers, acupuncturist, and nutritionists. Alternative healthcare options have been growing in the Cape Fear Region over the last decade as more and more individuals seek relief from common ailments with the use of holistic healthcare. When using one or some
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of these alternative healthcare options in conjunction with mainstream medical care, some patients find greater relief and wellbeing.
CARE MANAGEMENT
Sometimes healthcare can be more than scheduling an annual exam with your primary care physician. Moving through the complexities of a diagnosis or change in health can be overwhelming and often support is needed. Care management can help you and your family members move through situations like this with ease. Assistance For Life matches Care Managers with individuals who need support with long term planning, choosing a home care provider or retirement community, or help if you or a loved one are transitioning from a hospital to home or rehab. When discussing specific offerings of
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care management, Nikki Zeldin, Aging Life Care Professional and owner of Assistance for Life, explains that “Unforeseen changes in health can present roadblocks on life’s journey into the golden years. We walk the path with individuals, couples, and families providing guidance on resources and services, as well as advocacy and navigation within the healthcare system. Our goal is to keep people moving through the unexpected twists and turns.” From ongoing maintenance to short-term guidance, the team at Assistance For Life provides a “wholeperson approach” that considers all aspects of the individual and their situation. Assistance For Life also offers a Driving Fitness Program that can be beneficial if a loved one is considering whether or not to drive. Noa Alper, Aging Life Care Professional, OTR/L, and owner of Assistance For Life, shares, “Our Driving Fitness Program helps answer the sometimes difficult question, ‘Should I or my loved one continue behind the wheel?’ Our goal is to identify risks through evidence based clinical evaluation and help individuals maintain independence if it is time to transition to being a non-driver.” If loved ones or family reside out of town, it can be difficult to find the support needed if a change in health occurs. The regular visits and client advocacy provided from an Assistance For Life Care Manager can lift the burden of feeling alone in the process. The healthcare resources available in the Cape Fear Region are as abundant and diverse as each individual’s healthcare situation. And as the region continues to grow and expand, so do the medical providers, always striving to ensure the best in modern care and cuttingedge technology while maintaining the convenience and sense of community that makes our area so appealing.
LIFE KEEPS GETTING BETTER…
AND SO WILL YOUR NEXT REAL ESTATE EXPERIENCE.
As a Seniors Real Estate Specialist®, Shellee Brun has completed extensive training to help guide mature adults through the home buying process. Whether buying or selling, new to the Cape Fear Region or a local looking for a change, let Shellee take the stress out of your transaction – she has the knowledge and experience needed to make your next move your best move.
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