Personal care ... with a personal touch

Thank you for your interest in Buffalo Valley Lutheran Village. We welcome the opportunity to serve you. Experience our balance of freedom and professional assistance, or benefit from a respite-care stay.

The retirement communities of Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries take pride in providing high-quality services at affordable prices. Please e-mail or telephone Kathryn Miller at (570) 524-2221 for an up-to-date schedule of rates and fees.

Services included in our daily rate:

• Room accommodations
• Weekly housekeeping and linen service
• Three meals per day plus snacks
• Special diets
• Assistance with medications
• Personal-care assistance with bathing and dressing
• Scheduled transportation to shopping, doctors’ appointments, and special activities
• Activity programs and chaplaincy services

Enhanced care charges:

Enhanced care charges are in addition to the daily rate and cover services necessary, in the clinical judgment of the facility, to enable a resident to remain in a personal-care community:

• Additional assistance with bathing, dressing, and toileting
• Incontinence care
• Extraordinary housekeeping services
• Physical assistance for mobility needs

Facility services for which there is a separate charge:

• Personal laundry if done by staff
• Transportation
• Beauty and barber services
• Cable television
• Personal telephone
• Outside activities admissions or meals
• Guest meals

Those residents who are or who become beneficiaries of Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries' benevolent-care funding will be accommodated in studio apartments.