Good Samaritan Society - Water Valley

Residents at Good Samaritan Society - Water Valley look out toward the Rocky Mountains and across Lake Water Valley from a campus on Compassion Drive in Windsor, Colorado. The setting sits in the Water Valley South neighborhood, and it brings independent living, assisted living and memory care together within one community. Homes run from 283-square-foot memory care studios up to two-bedroom resort villas that measure 1,529 square feet.

Independent living comes in two forms, starting with apartments of one or two bedrooms that range from 644 to 1,350 square feet. Apartment living comes with a meal program, housekeeping, transportation, emergency response systems and central heat and air, along with utilities, maintenance, internet and basic cable. The resort villas, once known as twin homes, are duplex buildings in which two separate homes share a single structure.

Each villa is a smoke-free home with a fully equipped kitchen, and villa households have their utilities, upkeep, internet and basic cable provided. The concierge desk and the dining room are both reached from the Town Center, which also connects by hallways and elevators to the resident apartments. Assisted living apartments run from studios to one-bedroom layouts, with sizes from 283 to 1,350 square feet.

Memory care occupies a separate one-story building designed on a family home model, where private resident rooms, each with a private bath, are arranged around a shared living and dining room. An enclosed courtyard gives memory care residents a place of their own to spend time outside. Daily support there follows the assisted living approach, with added memory care programming for residents living with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias.

Faith life on campus includes Sunday worship in the chapel along with devotions and weekly Bible studies, and the prayer garden offers a quiet seat outdoors. For staying active, there are exercise classes, a fully equipped fitness center and health and wellness lectures, and residents can also spend time in the billiard area, the resident library and the salon. Meals are served restaurant-style in the dining room, and a bistro gives neighbors another spot to meet over food and conversation.

Assisted living respite stays are offered to family caregivers, with each stay lasting at least 7 days and no longer than 30 days. A respite guest has meals provided and receives round-the-clock care for the length of the visit. Care on the campus reaches through assisted living and memory care, and nursing home level medical care is not part of the services provided here. Pelican Lakes Golf Course is less than a mile from the community and Eastman Park is about a mile out, while RainDance National Golf Course and the Riverbend Natural Area are each within about 2 miles.

Boardwalk Park, the Art and Heritage Center and the Windsor History Museum are among the local attractions residents can enjoy. Ridgehill Tavern, Ziggi's Coffee and The Lodge Windsor are all within about a mile for a meal or coffee out, while a Safeway on Main Street and a Walgreens sit just under two and a half miles away. UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland is the nearest general hospital at roughly 5 miles, and Denver is no farther than 50 miles from the campus. UCHealth Greeley Hospital and Banner Fort Collins Medical Center are each about 7 miles from the community as well.