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This eliminated the need for a commercial kitchen . Big Lake has a similar facility called <br /> Cherrywood. It was filled in less than one year with a total capacity of 20. They have two <br /> kitchens also. <br /> The facility had large conunon areas that were shared with her residents. Most of the <br /> people shared rooms. The facility in Big Lalce, Cherrywood has 20 residents. Touring Senior <br /> Complexes with my class, I visited 4 more memory or advanced care cottages in the St. Cloud <br /> area. Country Manor in Sartell has a 36 unit Memory care facility, Prairie Ridge in Sartell has <br /> 16 units, St. Benedicts in St. Cloud has 30+ units and Good Shepherd has 24 units. <br /> My husband and I had talked to Marshall Weems, the Executive Director <br /> of Cherrywood Assisted Living Homes. Marshall invited me to visit this facility in Big Lake to <br /> find out what our impression was. The facility was beautiful. It has two wings with a large <br /> center family room. Each wing was identical; each with its own kitchen, living rooms individual <br /> bedrooms, laundry rooms and huge bedrooms to accommodate the residents. There is a beauty <br /> shop, laundry space, office space and a spa room also (large walk-in tubs). The facility had <br /> wide hallways and a porch that ran all along one side of the building. <br /> Because there is a moratorium on nursing homes being built and the need is so great. <br /> This building covers the need for people who fall between the cracks. They cannot take care of <br /> themselves in regular assisted living homes and there is such a need for this type of living <br /> arrangement that more homes like this are needed. It is found that people with Alzheimer's and <br /> stroke related memory loss are happier in this type of home like setting. So this is what <br /> influenced me to build this type of building. <br /> 3 <br />