Senior Living Transparent Pricing Options

Cost of

Assisted Living.

As you search for the right assisted living option, you may find yourself overwhelmed by a wide variety of contracts, services, and fees. Each assisted living facility has its own approach to pricing based on shared personal information. At Birches, our pricing can be found right here on our website.

Weighing your choices carefully is worth the time and research it takes. When you’re informed you can make a confident decision that meets all your objectives. The result is ensuring you can pay for assisted living, whether for yourself or a family member.

In keeping with our commitment to authenticity and transparency, we disclose everything not included with rent and our policies on admittance and discharges within our contracts. Keep reading for straightforward information about assisted living costs in Clarendon Hills.

Assisted living cost is primarily determined by the following:

Apartment Rental
Amount of assistance and care a resident requires
Service Initiation Fee
Resident requests of additional services

All of these variables can make it hard to determine an average cost of assisted living, or a standard assisted living cost per month. However, you can determine an even more informative figure — the price of assisted living for you or your loved one — by reviewing the costs listed below.

Assisted Living Apartments

Rent (residency fee) pays for your apartment, the cost of which will vary depending on size and location.

Assisted living residents at The Birches have options when it comes to their living space.

We offer studio apartments and one- and two-bedroom apartments, all with a kitchenette designed to provide privacy and the space you need.

Thirty minutes of cleaning per week are included in the Monthly Residency Fee. Additional housekeeping is priced at $8.00 per 15 minute increment.

Moving into The Birches should feel like home. We welcome couples that would like to share an apartment. Each person's level of care is included on the monthly invoice, along with a $500 per month fee for having a second person residing within the apartment.

Assisted Living Culinary Services

The monthly residency fee includes three meals a day, snacks, and occasional happy hour gatherings.

We offer residents several menu choices in our senior living community. This approach is incredibly unique since we don't use a rotating meal calendar. Instead, we focus on incorporating what our residents truly want by offering them two entrée choices, served restaurant-style, with every meal.

There are no additional charges for most special or modified diets.

The services of The Birches' consulting registered dietician in planning these special diets are generally included and not extra. A personal consultation is available, however, for an additional fee. For residents that request to eat in their apartment, there is a $5 tray and delivery fee per meal.

Service Initiation Fee

A one-time Service Initiation Fee of $4,500 is charged for new residents. The lump-sum fee fuels our community. By paying for this assisted living cost, residents offset the price of care, assessments, services, events, and amenities.

We offer a partial refund of the Service Initiation Fee if you should need to end your lease within the first three months of moving in.

Your new home here must meet your needs, and we don't want this care cost to hold you back from finding the right place to call home.

Optional Medication Management Service

The Medication Management option provides the administration of medications by licensed nurses according to doctors' orders.

This includes administering pills, applying transdermal patches, and instilling eyedrops or eardrops. However, it excludes injectable medications and testing such as blood glucose testing. The cost for the Medication Management option is $650 per month.

Medication Management Light

If all a day's medications may be taken at one time, a "Medication Management Light" option is available for $390 a month. Administration of injectable medications, including insulin, is an additional $300 a month. Blood glucose testing is $10.00 per test or $300 per month. The resident provides the test strips and machine.

Optional Nursing Services

We provide nursing services by a licensed nurse for $16.50 per 15-minute increment.

We're here to make life a little easier – both for you and your loved one.

Additional Resident Assistance Service Options and Assisted Living Costs

If needed, The Birches Assisted Living and Memory Care will prepare individualized recommendations for the prospective resident and an estimated monthly cost for care based on the physician, resident, and family input. Older adults have a wide range of needs, and we’re committed to meeting them with effective support and service.

Recommendations may include assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), such as toileting, bathing, dressing, grooming, and transferring. It can also incorporate assistance with the administration of medications and more.

The resident and family decide if they wish to have The Birches provide the recommended services or if they want to arrange for services from another source.

Optional Resident Assistant Service

We offer Resident Assistant Service for $10.00 per 15-minute increment. (Note: shower assists almost always require two 15-minute increments.)

Optional Resident Escorted Services

If needed or requested, we provide resident assistants who will assist and escort a resident. This includes walking and pushing a wheelchair, per round trips a day to any location in the building. The fee for the resident assistance option is $485 per month.

Optional Laundry Services

If you would like us to provide laundry services the charge is $10 per load. That fee covers complete service: laundry is washed, dried, folded, and put away. Residents and families may use the machines at no charge. We supply the detergent or you may use your own.

Additional Monitoring Equipment

Rental equipment is available for sending silent alarms to our resident assistants when apartment doors are opened or beds/chairs are exited. Each resident receives a wireless emergency pendant upon move-in to use within the community. The cost is $30 per person per month.

Personal Hygiene Products

If you wish to obtain adult disposable incontinence management products through Tthe Birches, we can assist.

Transportation Service

The Birches provides transportation services for scheduled outings and events at no additional charge. In addition, local transportation (within 5 miles) can be requested for doctor’s appointments or other needs.

Personal requests for transportation are limited to four rides per resident, per month at no additional charge. When staff members are available, additional rides can be scheduled at a rate of $10 per quarter hour of staff time. The Birches staff can assist in setting up other transportation.

While there is no charge for transportation to scheduled activities or outings, there may be fees for the events or activities attended.

Birches Assisted Living commitment to authenticity and transparency.

When The Birches provides services to a resident beyond the stand-by services for emergencies, staff members will informally evaluate how the resident is doing. Based on these evaluations, staff will organize and schedule periodic care conferences.

At these care conferences, the resident, the resident's family, and representatives from various departments discuss whether things appear to be going satisfactory or whether modification of the Service Plan (if any) seems to be indicated. Learn more about our Resident Care Level Assessment Criteria.

Changes in Charges

Unlike the Monthly Residency Fee (rent), charges for care are not frozen for a year. If there is a change in the services provided, there will be a change in the costs.

After a reevaluation, charges may go up, go down, or remain the same. These changes in services provided are subject to discussion with the resident, family, and others but are ultimately the prerogative of the Birches based on what we feel is necessary.

However, changes in pricing for an individual service, such as the medication package, may be made without notice to the resident. Generally, however, except for changes in pricing for supply items, The Birches typically provides advance notice of increases in charges for care and similar assisted living costs.

How Does Billing Work?

We send an invoice to each resident or their designated family member at the end of every month, covering rent for the following month.

If you have a question about something on you or your loved one's invoice, please feel free to contact us. Invoices are due by the 10th of every month. If a rent payment arrives after the 20th of the month, we charge a daily late fee of $25. A first month's rent and a one-time community fee are due at contract signing. We have an ACH option available at no charge. Please note that we ask for a fully refundable $500 fee to reserve an apartment for all residents. The $500 fee will be deducted from the first month's rent.

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