The House and the Campus
Angelica's Place opens at $4,900 a month for a place in a fifteen-resident house on East Lafayette Street that is secured end to end. Orchard Grove Health Campus opens at $6,800 for one of sixteen secured rooms inside a fifty-five-bed property on Orchard Crossing Lane that also carries independent apartments, assisted living and nursing beds. That is the whole of $4,900 - $6,800/mo in 2026, and the village average of $5,850 describes the midpoint of a gap rather than any room a family can actually rent.
Both are starting prices with an assessed level of daily support written above them, and the distance between them is not a distance in secured care. Fifteen residents in a locked house get a caregiver group that barely changes and a routine everyone shares. Sixteen rooms inside a campus get more staff on a shift, more happening through the day, and a building that can take a resident onward without a second search when the time comes.
What Sits Above Either Romeo Figure
The assessment does most of the moving, and what separates a low level from a high one is not the diagnosis but the number of staff minutes a day it consumes. A resident who walks steadily and sleeps through the night is written close to whichever figure applies. Someone who cannot stand without two caregivers, and who needs one within reach all evening, is written considerably above it, and at fifteen residents that presses against what a small staff can carry.
Room choice exists on one side of this market only. The house has fifteen rooms and little to choose between them, while the campus prices its secured rooms apart and has more of them to offer in a given month. That also makes availability behave differently at the two addresses, since a fifteen-bed house has a room when someone leaves and a fifty-five-bed campus moves residents internally as well as admitting from outside.
The third factor is how fast needs are changing, because both buildings revisit the level at each review and a resident admitted mid-decline can see the figure move more than once inside a year.
Two Rates That Cover Different Ground
Inside it: somewhere to live, three meals with help, a building kept clean, a perimeter that holds, night staff who stay awake, and activity built for a resident who cannot follow a complicated schedule. From there the two diverge more than most Michigan pairs do, because Orchard Grove's rate also carries a campus with therapy space, dining rooms and its own nursing wing standing behind it, while the house on East Lafayette Street carries a kitchen, a garden and fifteen people.
The bill beside the rate holds an entry fee, the graded level of support, incontinence supplies, the hairdresser and the pharmacy. Orchard Grove takes pets and offers respite stays, so a trial week there is possible before anything longer is signed. Escorted appointments run south, since Henry Ford Macomb in Clinton Township and McLaren Macomb in Mount Clemens are the nearest hospitals of any size and the drive is the price of the village setting.
How Far Ahead to Start at Each Address
Neither building quotes before its own staff has met the resident, so book the assessment first and gather the physician's statement, tuberculosis screening and medication list alongside it. At the house, timing is the whole game and the family that can move is the one already assessed. At the campus, the application takes longer to work through but rooms surface more often, so starting earlier matters more than moving fast.
Ask both what the level review schedule looks like, because in a village with thirty-one secured beds the schedule shapes a budget more than the choice of address does.