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EFA DESIGN SHOWCASE
POST-ACUTE/REHABILITATION/SKILLED NURSING

Clark County Rehabilitation and Living Center OWEN, WIS.
Submitted by: Community Living Solutions APPLETON, WIS.
Project category: Addition and remodel/renovation
Chief administrator: Jane Schmitz
Firm: Community Living Solutions, www.communitylivingsolutions.com
Design team: Community Living Solutions (architect and construction
manager); Living Designs LLC (interior design); Larson Engineering
(structural engineer); MEP Associates (MEP design)
Photography: ©2021 The Cook Photograph Company
Number/type of housing units: 16 short-term care rehab beds, 16
long-term care skilled nursing beds (addition); 12 long-term care skilled
nursing beds (remodel)
Total building area (sq. ft.): 26,650 (addition); 8,403 (remodel)
Construction cost/sq. ft.: $186 (addition); $108 (remodel)
Total construction cost (excluding land): $4.9 million (addition);
$911,000 (remodel)
Completed: January 2019 (addition); January 2020 (remodel)

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Supplement to Environments for Aging

The Clark County Rehabilitation
and Living Center (CCRLC) has
served its central Wisconsin county
for nearly 100 years, providing
healthcare services to elderly, mentally ill and developmentally disabled
residents. Facility leadership and
County Board Supervisor's primary
goal-improve marketability to boost
revenue so that its tax levy could be
eased or even eliminated over time.
Community Living Solutions
began by launching a multiyear,
consensus-built, informed decision-making process that would

address the facility's long-time goals.
Stakeholders were clear that CCRLC
would not support a new replacement facility without thoughtfully
addressing the existing facility. After
considerable deliberation, it was determined that CCRLC could benefit
from a new short-term rehabilitation addition and remodeling of
the existing centralized institutional
long-term care wings. The outcome
of this approach was that all existing
facility residents and staff would
benefit from the gradual transformation to a person-centered residential
household setting.
The initial phase of the multiyear
campus makeover would begin with
the addition of an attached 32-unit
private room resident-centered
care facility with a new entry and
rehabilitation and wellness space. The
final triangular floor plan geometry
was strongly influenced by management and staff 's desire to separate the
short-term care and long-term care
households, yet allow for common
support functions to be shared and
limit distances to activities of daily living and the supportive care required
to do the same. The addition created
the opportunity to renovate the threestory institutional long-term care
wings with separately phased floorby-floor renovations that would create
new residential-scale person-centered
household environments.
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