A Personal Care Home Minutes From Chattanooga
Ridge Manor of Rossville · 616 Mohawk Street, Rossville, Georgia · directly on the Chattanooga city line
From $3,900 a month, all-inclusive. Twenty-four residents. Every room with its own private bathroom. Private payment and Georgia Medicaid waiver accepted — so a resident who starts out paying privately does not have to move again when the money runs low.
Where are you in this?
I need a place soon. Weeks, not months. Call (470) 469-7136 or send us a text and we will tell you honestly what we have open today, what it costs, and whether we are the right fit. If we are not, we will say so and point you somewhere better.
I am planning ahead. Months or a year out. Join our waitlist — we will send our rate sheet and call you when a room that suits your family member comes open.
- Nearly eight years operating personal care homes in Georgia
- Family owned — not a chain, no regional office
- Licensed by the Georgia Department of Community Health
- RN on staff
- Approved Georgia Medicaid waiver provider — EDWP, accepting CCSP and SOURCE
First, the vocabulary
In Tennessee, homes like ours are licensed as Residential Homes for the Aged, and larger communities are Assisted-Care Living Facilities. Georgia uses different words: we are licensed as a personal care home.
Same kind of place. Different state, different paperwork. If you have been searching “assisted living near Chattanooga” and nothing small has come up, this is why — the places just across the line are filed under a name you were not searching for.
Our rates
Every price below is all-inclusive. No care-level surcharges. No medication management fee. No incontinence supply charge. What we quote is what you pay.
| Shared room | Private room | |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | $3,900 | $4,950 |
| Level 2 | $4,600 | $5,650 |
| Level 3 | $5,300 | $6,350 |
Community fee: $2,000, one time. Most communities in the Chattanooga area charge between $2,000 and $5,000. Ours covers preparing the room, the initial care assessment and care plan, admission paperwork, and help with waiver applications where they apply.
Level 1 — help with medications, bathing prompts, meals, laundry and housekeeping. Mobile, transfers on her own.
Level 2 — hands-on help with bathing, dressing and toileting. One-person transfer. Some memory support.
Level 3 — two-person or lift transfer, bowel and bladder incontinence, significant memory support, or help with eating.
Assessed at move-in, reviewed every six months, and we call you before anything changes.
Ask any community you tour: is that price all-inclusive, and what does it become if her care needs increase?
The rooms
Every room has its own private bathroom. No sharing with the room next door, no trip down the hall at two in the morning. In a great many homes that is not the case, and it is worth asking about everywhere you look.
Rooms are comfortable rather than large. Residents spend their days in the living room, the dining room and on the porch — not shut in a bedroom, and the building is single level throughout.
Why Chattanooga families cross the state line
It is smaller. Most families searching in Chattanooga are choosing between communities of eighty to a hundred and twenty residents. Ridge Manor of Rossville has twenty-four. Our staff know every one of them by name, know which ones do not sleep well, and know who takes her coffee black.
It is close. Rossville sits directly on the Chattanooga city line. Most of our Chattanooga families visit several times a week. Some come daily.
And when private funds run out, she does not have to move again
Private savings run down. In most Chattanooga communities that means moving — new building, new staff, new routine — at exactly the point in someone’s life when change is hardest to absorb.
Residents who move to Ridge Manor of Rossville become Georgia residents, and may apply for Georgia’s Medicaid waiver programmes from our address. We are an approved provider through the Elderly and Disabled Waiver Program, accepting CCSP and SOURCE. We help families through that application, and we do it often.
We cannot promise approval — nobody honestly can. Eligibility and authorisation are determined by the appropriate Georgia agencies and care coordinators. But we can tell you plainly whether it is worth applying in your situation, before you commit to anything.
Questions Chattanooga families ask us
Can my mother stay on her Tennessee doctor?
If she has Original Medicare, yes. Medicare is federal and works with any provider who accepts it, in any state. On a Medicare Advantage plan it depends on that plan’s network — see below.
Does she have to change her Medicare?
Original Medicare (Parts A and B) — no change at all. Medicare Advantage (Part C) — these plans cover set service areas, usually by county, so moving from Hamilton County, Tennessee to Walker County, Georgia takes her outside her plan’s area. That opens a Special Enrollment Period to choose a plan available here or return to Original Medicare. A normal process, not a penalty. Part D works the same way. We are not insurance advisers and will not pretend to be — but we can point you to free Medicare counselling in either state.
Can I visit whenever I want?
Yes. You do not need to call first and you do not need a reason.
Do you have a room right now?
Availability changes week to week. Call or text (470) 469-7136 and we will tell you exactly what is open today.
Ready to see the home itself? → Ridge Manor of Rossville
What families say
Arrange a visit
Come during a normal day and see it as it is. Most families visit within a few days of first calling, and we can usually fit you in the same week.
Call (470) 469-7136 · send us a text · or ask us a question below
Join the waitlist
Not ready yet? Most families are not when they first look. Leave your details and we will send you our rate sheet, and call you when a room comes open. We will not add you to a mailing list.
Ridge Manor of Rossville · 616 Mohawk Street, Rossville, GA 30741 · (470) 469-7136