St. Mary's Home

St. Mary's Home is a nursing home in Norfolk, Virginia, providing residential care for children and young adults with complex disabilities. The home serves residents from across Virginia, offering medical, therapeutic, educational and recreational services for 88 children from newborn to age 21, and, since the opening of The Albero House in 2013, for 12 adults older than 21. It holds a rating of 3.20 based on 18 reviews. St. Mary's Home has cared for children since 1944. The building has four residential neighborhoods, each with a nurses' station and six four-person bedrooms, along with four interior courtyards, one with a playground with adaptive play equipment and one with a hydrotherapy pool and fountain. It also includes two private family visitation rooms, physicians' offices, a dentist office and a barber and beauty shop, eight educational classrooms, and spacious hallways to accommodate wheelchairs, with large windows and skylights throughout. Residents are referred by hospital discharge planners, physicians, community service boards and current residents' families, and families can also self-refer. The average length of stay is six to seven years. Physical therapy is determined by evaluation at admission and re-evaluation each year, and staff receive regular in-service training within an interdisciplinary team approach. St. Mary's Home partners with Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs to provide specialized education to residents through the REACH Program. Shannon Edsall has served as Chief Executive Officer since October 2023, having begun her career with St. Mary's Home in 2011. The home sits on Kempsville Circle, about 0.1 miles from Kempsville Road and 0.2 miles from the Hampton Roads Beltway, the I 64 Express Lanes and East Virginia Beach Boulevard. Sentara Leigh Hospital and Norfolk Psychiatric Center are both about 0.2 miles away. St. Mary's Home pairs more than eight decades of caring for children in Norfolk with a building purpose-built for residents with severe disabilities, a combination that shapes daily life for the children and young adults who live there.

Services:

• Behavior Therapy
• Nursing and Medical Care
• Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Residential Services
• Speech Therapy