A 68,000-square-foot transitional care and assisted living facility under construction at 9814 Grant Road and is expected to be complete by November, officials said. The site is located across from Cypress Creek High School.
The facility—which is unnamed at this point—is being developed by Indiana-based Mainstreet. It will be operated by the Houston branch of the Ensign Group.
Transitional care provides rehabilitation and therapy services specifically for people who need short-term care, said Mike Klingl, senior development director for Mainstreet. The Grant Road facility will include 94 beds, 70 for skilled nursing transitional care and 24 for assisted living, he said.
“There will be some longer-term folks on our assisted living floor, but it will generally be positioned as a soft landing for people coming out of transitional care who need a little more time,” Klingl said. “People are typically in transitional care for 10-14 days, but some people don’t rehab that quickly. Instead of sending those people home, we can give them a little more time to get up to speed.”
This facility will be Mainstreet’s first in the Greater Houston area. Klingl said there is a demand for transitional care in Cy-Fair, and this particular facility will fill a void by making rehab a more enjoyable experience for patients.
“A bunch of those facilities are not necessarily focused on getting patients out of the room and interacting with other patients,” Klingl said. “We are creating a product that will be more focused on getting folks out and making [rehab] an enjoyable experience.”
The Grant Road project will include a large therapy gym, outdoor rehabilitation courtyard, movie theater, beauty salon and spa as well as a pub and a kitchen with an on-site chef. The courtyard will be dedicated to rehab, featuring different surfaces for patients to train on, such as ramps, stairs and loose gravel, Klingl said.
“We tried to gear our facility to large 4-star-hotel-style amenities,” he said. “When someone is walking in, they look like they’re staying at a hotel as opposed to a nursing facility. People can sit down and eat with their families and not feel like they're in transitional care.”