The Wartburg Home was very good and had excellent rehab. Mom wanted to stay there, but they said she can't because Medicare said she was not progressing and Medicare would not want to work with us anymore. It was a beautiful place because they had a whole new building just for rehab, and it was very nice and everything was brand new.

I was able to visit years ago when my mother was alive. She finally had to go to skilled nursing care rather than assisted living at the Wartburg. She was able to remain home with community Medicaid and a healthcare worker from the Wartburg association. But then her medical condition declined so precipitously that at the end she had to go as an in-patient. It is an excellent place. It is related to the Lutheran Church. I know the head chaplain there very well. I've known her for many years as a colleague because I'm a clergyman too. They have independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing care, rehab, and an Alzheimer's unit. I think they are in the process of constructing a whole new building which will be for rehab. Everything is very fine. There is tremendous attention to the needs of the patients. There is also a strong sense of the faith and the church there. For example they house two communities of retired Dominican sisters in their assisted living complex, so that says an awful lot about that.