WINDSOR, Vt. — The Congress Companies recently completed the expansion to The Village at Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community, Windsor, Vermont, and is open for residents. Congress Building Corp. provided construction management services for the $10.6-million project. An open house was held on Sunday, Feb. 22, where tours were given of the new 41,800-square-foot addition.
Founded in 1988, Cedar Hill offers a continuum of care ranging from independent and assisted living to skilled nursing, rehabilitative and Alzheimer’s care, all on one campus. The community is owned by Mary Louise Sayles, a registered nurse and licensed nursing home administrator, and her daughter Patricia Horn, also a licensed nursing home administrator.
Designed by Mackenzie Architects, the addition includes a 20-patient memory care unit and another 20 independent and assisted living apartments, tripling the space and resident capacity of the Cedar Hill Community. The original Village at Cedar Hill housed 21 one and two-bedroom apartments and common areas in 17,854 square feet. This expansion added a full two levels and increased the square footage to 59,720.
Cedar Hill’s Memory Care Center is the first of its kind in the area. One entire floor of the addition is dedicated to care for those with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia with 12 private apartments and eight semi-private apartments. Fully staffed and secure, it includes a large common area with a country kitchen, dining room, living room, multipurpose activity room, salon, greenhouse, art center and a secure outdoor garden area. The center also features solar tubes to capture natural sunlight, a whirlpool and an enclosed walking area. The center will be named in honor of Judith Brogren, R.N. and co-founder of the Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community, who passed away in 2013.
The new wing for independent and assisted living adds more one and two-bedroom and studio apartments to the center, all with walk-in closets, wheelchair-accessible bathrooms and large showers. Common areas feature spacious living room, dining room, pub, activity room, fitness center, salon, library and computer center spaces. This wing will be dedicated to the late Maria Louise Horn, licensed nursing home administrator and oldest daughter of Sayles and sister to Horn, who passed away in 2004.
The expansion project was funded in part through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development insured mortgage.
