Woodland Terrace at Lilac Court on Red Arrow Highway runs 45 rooms, fifteen of them secured. That makes Coloma one of the larger senior-living addresses in northern Berrien County, and a good deal larger than the small houses that make up most of the coast's inventory.
Roughly 34,300 people in Berrien County are 65 or over, better than one resident in five. Coloma sits inland near Watervliet at the county's northern end, closer to the fruit-farming townships than to the lakeshore towns, and its 45 rooms serve that end of the county.
How Care Shows Up in Coloma
Forty-five rooms across two care levels gives Coloma more depth than most addresses in this half of the county.
- Independent Living: No apartment-only tier exists in Coloma, so households not yet needing help stay in their own homes and arrange services around them.
- Assisted Living: Thirty of the rooms carry this level at $4,770 a month, toward the upper end of what the county charges.
- Memory Care: Fifteen secured rooms cost $5,770, exactly $1,000 more, and having them in the same building removes any need for a second move.
- Skilled Nursing: Woodland Terrace carries no nursing certification, so that level is provided at a county nursing home, generally reached through a hospital.
Thirty rooms of daily support and fifteen secured is a workable ratio, and it means availability here is less brittle than at the twelve and twenty-room houses nearby.
Healthcare Access in Coloma
Coloma's own hospital is the smallest of Corewell Health's three in the county, at Watervliet just up the road on Medical Park Drive, which handles the northern end. The main campus lies south, where Corewell Health Lakeland Medical Center operates 196 beds and covers cardiac surgery, oncology, neurosurgery and orthopedics, with chest pain and stroke accreditation alongside.
Having a small local hospital and a large regional one inside the same system means a Coloma resident moves between them without anybody chasing records. Anything exceeding both goes north to Grand Rapids, where Corewell Health Butterworth carries West Michigan's burn unit and its highest trauma designation.
What Coloma Pricing Looks Like
Coloma's two rates are separated by exactly $1,000, at $4,770 for daily support and $5,770 for a secured room in 2026. Both figures land toward the upper end of the county range rather than the middle.
What a household is buying at that level is scale, since a 45-room building supports deeper overnight staffing and a fuller day than the small houses along this coast can manage on twelve or twenty rooms. Whether that is worth the difference depends entirely on the resident, and it is the question most worth putting to a tour, though Woodland Terrace accepts no Medicaid funding at present.
Why Families Choose Coloma
Coloma sits among the orchards and vineyards of northern Berrien, and households here have generally worked or lived beside that land for a long time. Somebody moving into Woodland Terrace stays inland among the same people rather than being taken to the lakeshore towns.
The location on Red Arrow Highway also puts the building within easy reach of Watervliet, Hartford and the surrounding townships, so visitors come from a wider circle than one town would supply.
What a Local Advisor Brings to Coloma
At 45 rooms this is one of the few northern Berrien addresses with genuine depth, which changes what an advisor is doing here. Rather than chasing scarce availability, a Local Senior Advisor is weighing whether the higher rate buys something a particular resident will actually use, and whether one of the smaller houses nearby would suit them better for less.
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