The Somerset Program

The Somerset Program has the capacity to serve 16 residents and is designed to assist individuals with severe functional, behavioral, and cognitive limitations requiring long-term or possible life care.  Somerset  is designed to provide a stable and structured safe environment. Residents are supervised 24 hours a day and are actively involved in daily activities that are tailored to the needs of each person. Preserving a positive self-image and self-worth are important objectives integrated throughout the Somerset Program.

The goals of  Somerset are to promote quality of life and to maintain the highest level of neuromedical and behavioral stability. Included in the maintenance of the highest level of achieved post-injury functioning is the prevention of re injury and recidivism to acute care, to the extent possible.


Services provided by the Somerset Program may include:

• 24-hour Awake staff

• 24-hour nursing support

• Behavioral management

• Living skills training

• Educational programming

• Print shop

• Horticultural

• Community based programming

• Weekly community outings

• Individual support groups (AA, Brain Injury Groups etc.)

• Physical, occupational, speech, and psychological therapies available

• A Better Life Experience or A.B.L.E, a program that addresses quality of life, leisure, and social opportunity.

Admission criteria:

• Must be 16.5 years of age.

• Full time indirect supervision to full time direct supervision.

• Nursing intervention no greater than 1 hour.

• Acute neuromedical stability.

• Formal consultation with attending physician one time per month.

• Not more than two formal ongoing therapies.