Wheatridge Park Care Center

Care and services

From the community’s website

What Wheatridge Park Care Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.

• Offers respite or short-term stays. Respite (Vacation) Care (page, checked Oct 12, 2026)
• Has a secured outdoor area. Our residents have the option to indulge in home-cooked meals and snacks and admire the local wildlife from our secured courtyard. (page, checked Oct 15, 2026)

Staff pay and workplace safety

Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.

OSHA workplace safety inspections

OSHA inspects workplaces for staff safety, such as lifting, needles, chemicals and workplace violence. It does not inspect resident care.

• Aug 10, 2023: programmed (planned) inspection, partial (health). Case closed Sep 26, 2023. No violations cited. OSHA record. OSHA recorded the employer as Frontline Management, Corp. Matched by street address; the name OSHA recorded differs from the community's.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor OSHA enforcement data, as of Oct 15, 2026, inspections since 2016. Penalties can change while a case is open or contested.

Location and nearby care

Nearest hospital with an emergency room

Southwest Medical Center, Liberal. 1.0 mile away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 1 of 5 stars.

Nearest Medicare nursing home

Southwest Medical Center SNF, Liberal. 0.8 miles away, straight line.

Nearest home health agency office

Health Watch Health Care Of Liberal, LLC, Liberal. 1.1 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.

Nearest pharmacy

Walgreens. 1.1 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.

Area

USDA classes ZIP code 67901 as micropolitan (micropolitan core).

Dialysis within 15 miles

Renal Care Group - Liberal, Liberal, 1.0 mile away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)

Hospice

2 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 67901.

Nearest geriatric medicine practice

George Melone, MD, La Junta. 156.4 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.

Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.

Emergency and natural hazard risk

Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.

Flood zone

Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)

Wildfire risk to homes

In Liberal, KS, risk to homes is greater than 85% of communities in Kansas and 85% of communities nationwide. USDA rates the whole town or city, not this address. (USDA Forest Service, Wildfire Risk to Communities, April 2026)

FEMA National Risk Index

Overall: relatively low. By hazard: inland flooding relatively low, wildfire relatively moderate, tornado relatively high, heat wave very low, earthquake relatively low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)

A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.

What we checked

Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.