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Community overview

St. John's Home in Rochester provides long-term skilled nursing in a home-like setting. Care is built around resident choice and companionship. Doctors, LPNs and nurse practitioners are available around the clock. Dedicated care teams address residents’ individual needs and desires.

Search description

St. John's Home provides long-term skilled nursing in a home-like setting shaped around resident choice.

Can family visit a resident receiving Comfort Care at any hour?

Yes. Comfort Care offers 24-hour open visitation for residents.

Care & support

St. John's Comfort Care is based at the Home and offers short- and long-term palliative care.

Care & support

The interdisciplinary hospice team focuses on comfort, pain management and honoring residents’ choices near the end of life.

Care & support

Comfort Care support also includes on-site medical staff, round-the-clock skilled nursing, pain-management expertise, and individual and family support and counseling.

Care & support

Staff training includes specialized methods to foster freedom of choice for residents living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Rooms & living spaces

Living areas follow a small-homes model, with home-like finishes, fewer residents per neighborhood, more privacy and greater consistency in staffing.

Rooms & living spaces

The Home has newly remodeled private and semi-private rooms.

Everyday life

Residents have access to free long-distance calling.

Everyday life

The enclosed courtyard has a gazebo, seating, a swing, greenery and a fishpond. It offers space for family gatherings and, in warmer weather, picnics and concerts. Additional garden areas provide places to sit, visit or spend quiet time outdoors.

Dining & meals

Neighborhood kitchens allow each small home to shape a dining experience around residents’ traditions and family-favorite foods.

Dining & meals

Staff dietitians work with chefs to plan nutritious meals and attend to residents’ dietary restrictions and requirements.

Activities & connection

Residents can share talents such as gardening, baking, storytelling, needlecraft and art with staff, volunteers and one another. There are also opportunities for quiet reflection.

Activities & connection

Therapeutic recreation staff lead activities intended to encourage residents to keep living and growing.

Activities & connection

Spiritual care professionals offer counsel for people of different faiths. Faith-community members from the Rochester area also visit to provide support.

Activities & connection

The Visiting Pets Program helps residents maintain a connection with a pet they had before moving in or form a new relationship with an animal.

Shared spaces & amenities

Other features include a spacious rehabilitation gym, learning center, library, auditorium, art galleries, ice cream shop, gift shop, and beauty and barber shop.

Location & getting around

At the corner of Highland and South Avenues, the Home has views of Highland Park and the Rochester skyline.