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 About
Us
Kateri Residence is a Joint
Commission accredited not-for-profit 520-bed skilled nursing
and rehabilitation center located on Riverside Drive at 87th Street
in Manhattan. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York
assumed responsibility for operating the Home in 1981 and named
it in memory of Kateri Tekakwitha, a caring 17th century American
Indian who converted to Christianity. In 1980, 300 years after
her death, Blessed Kateri was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
Today, our dedicated clinical and support staff
strives to fulfill the ideals of Blessed Kateri by providing loving
care to all patients and residents in a manner that bespeaks respect,
compassion, sensitivity and concern. Whether seeking short-term
rehabilitation or long-term care, our patients and residents benefit
from our philosophy of individualized care in a homelike setting.
Those who require short-term rehabilitation are
placed on one of our two 40-bed subacute care units. To accommodate
a timely return of our subacute care patients to their homes in
the community, we offer rehabilitation six days a week. This service
is also available to our long-term care residents.
Our long-term care residents also experience the
benefit of a caring staff that recognizes that the care of our
residents embraces their physical, social, emotional and spiritual
well-being, as well as the preservation of their dignity.
As you read more about Kateri Residence, you will
notice that we use the word ‘Community’ when referring
to our nursing units. We are committed to changing our environment
to a Person Centered one in which staff work closely with residents
and families to identify lifelong routines and assist residents
to continue these routines while they live here and make Kateri
Residence their Home. This is a change in the philosophy of care
away from the traditional medical model to a more inclusive one.
This change is referred to as a ‘Journey’ and part
of our ‘Journey’ is to create ‘Communities’
in place of Nursing units.
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