Forty-Six Beds, All at One Level
West Water Street holds Negaunee's only senior living address, and Teal Lake Senior Living Community there is quoted from $4,200/mo for 2026, so $4,200 restates one building's number rather than averaging a market. All forty-six of its beds carry the assisted living license.
Forty-six beds at a single level is an unusual shape, and it is the thing worth understanding about this page. Most buildings that size split their capacity across two or three licenses, which spreads the staffing thin and turns the activity calendar into a compromise between residents who want very different days. Here everybody is at the same stage, so the building can staff for one group properly and build a calendar that suits it rather than splitting the difference between three. It also draws from beyond the town, since the iron-range communities west of Marquette carry a good share of the county's 14,200 residents past sixty-five, and a household in Ishpeming or the surrounding townships is looking at this building too.
What Moves a Negaunee Quote
Grading does nearly all of it, and the community sorts residents by how many staff minutes their day takes, so help standing, help at meals and continence care raise a level long before forgetfulness registers at all, and none of it is settled permanently when a resident arrives.
Room choice is a genuine second lever here in a way it is not at a twenty-bed house, because forty-six beds carry real variety in size and outlook, and a smaller room is a different monthly figure before any care is counted. That makes asking what is open this month, rather than what the building offers in principle, the more useful question on a first call.
The third thing to establish is where the boundary sits, since the license at this address covers assisted living and nothing beyond it, and that limit shapes the second half of a stay more than the opening figure does. No secured setting operates on this site, so a resident who eventually needs supervision behind a locked door will be looking eleven miles east toward Marquette, which holds the county's secured capacity. Knowing that at the outset is more useful than discovering it during a difficult month.
What Forty-Six Beds Buy at One Level
Housing and the bills attached to it, three meals, laundry and housekeeping, an activity calendar that can genuinely run because everybody sits at a similar stage, and staffing at every hour, with personal help folded in as deep as the assessment reaches. Respite is offered at Teal Lake, which for a household covering a caregiver's absence in the Upper Peninsula is genuinely useful, since the alternative is usually a long drive to somewhere unfamiliar.
Standing on their own are the move-in fee, the graded level, incontinence supplies, salon visits and prescriptions. Transport is worth pricing per journey rather than assuming, because specialist care runs east to Marquette and the building has to staff an escort for it.
Depth at One Level, and the Line Beyond It
What Negaunee offers is depth rather than range, and a household should weigh both halves of that honestly. Forty-six beds means availability is far less brittle than at the small homes across the iron range, where an opening depends entirely on somebody moving out. A single license means the arrangement has an end point, and somebody should name it early rather than meeting it unprepared.
Complete the assessment before it is needed, assemble the medical paperwork alongside it, and ask Teal Lake plainly what level of need would carry a resident past its license. An advisor can then lay the Marquette options against that answer, so a family is holding an actual plan by the time the day arrives.