Caring Close to Home

Heathcote runs three senior living communities and an in-home care service in the Portland metro area, with assisted living, apartment living, respite and recovery stays under one roof of values.

For more than thirty-five years we have grown slowly and on purpose, adding services only when the families we serve asked for them.

We start with the person, not the diagnosis or the room type. Every new resident and home care client sits down with us to talk about routines, likes and the parts of the day that matter most.

Care plans are written in plain words and reviewed at least every ninety days, or sooner whenever something changes.

We believe a good community feels a little like a good street: people greet each other, notice when someone is missing and pitch in.

We hire for warmth and train for skill, with every caregiver completing our own orientation and ongoing learning each year.

Heathcote started in 1987 when a group of neighbours in southeast Portland converted a large family home into a residence for six older adults who wanted to stay in the area they knew.

Alder Grove opened on that same street in 1996, Juniper Court followed in 2008 and Cedar Terrace welcomed its first apartment residents in 2021. Our in-home care team began in 2012.

We still answer to a volunteer board of directors made up of local residents, family members and professionals, and we still reinvest in our homes, our staff and our programs.