Baton Rouge Senior AdvisorWilliamsburg Senior Living Community, at 5445 Government Street in Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish), holds Louisiana Department of Health adult residential care license #7135; LDH records it as Level 3 (assisted living) for up to 163 residents, with the current license running through May 31, 2027.
Is Williamsburg Senior Living Community licensed in Louisiana, and for how many residents?
Louisiana's November 2026 roster shows Williamsburg Senior Living Community as an active adult residential care license (#7135) for 163 residents; the typical larger ARCP in the ten-parish Baton Rouge area is licensed for 71.
| State record | Detail |
|---|---|
| LDH license | Adult residential care #7135 |
| State ID | AC0010333 |
| Level | Level 3 (assisted living) |
| Licensed residents (LDH directory) | 163 |
| Original licensure | May 14, 2001, roughly 25 years ago |
| Current license issued | April 13, 2026 |
| Expiration | May 31, 2027 |
| Administrator of record | Tamika Rhinehart |
Its licensing history starts in 2001. Each renewal is issued to the same licensee at the same address; if the operator changes, LDH must hear about it in writing within five business days.
Can Williamsburg Senior Living Community provide skilled nursing?
Not directly. At Level 3, Williamsburg Senior Living Community supplies personal care, meals, medication assistance and activities in apartment units; skilled nursing such as wound care or injections has to come from a home health agency or hospice the resident's doctor orders.
The practical test comes at discharge: a Level 3 building can take a resident back if home health supplies the therapy or wound care and the ARCP coordinates it.
Does Williamsburg Senior Living Community have a dementia unit?
The roster is silent on it. Any ARCP that markets dementia care must keep written policies and criteria available to the public, so ask Williamsburg Senior Living Community to hand them over during the visit.
Ordinary ARCP staff need two hours of dementia training within 90 days and two hours a year; staff in a specialized program need eight hours each. Nearby ARCPs whose licensed names mention memory care: Holly Court Assisted Living and Memory Care (3.2 mi).
Where can I read Williamsburg Senior Living Community's state inspection findings?
Louisiana does not put ARCP surveys online, so start with the copy Williamsburg Senior Living Community must keep posted on site, then ask LDH's Health Standards Section for older statements if you want the full history.
No posted findings does not mean no findings, so ask directly. If something on a tour concerns you, call LDH's Health Standards Section at 1-888-810-1819; complaint investigations are unannounced.
How would Williamsburg Senior Living Community handle a hurricane or flood?
Louisiana makes emergency planning a licensing requirement: Williamsburg Senior Living Community must keep a written plan for evacuating and sheltering in place, identify each resident, list what its generator runs, and give every resident a written copy of the evacuation procedures.
East Baton Rouge Parish is inland, so its storm risk is rain flooding along the Amite and Comite rivers and long power outages rather than surge; the August 2016 flood reached neighborhoods from Central to Southeast Baton Rouge. Ask what happened here during the 2016 flood and Hurricane Ida's 2021 outages, where residents would go, and how the written disaster-fee formula in the agreement works.
Which licensed ARCPs should we compare with Williamsburg Senior Living Community?
Shekinah Glory in Baton Rouge is the nearest other ARCP licensed for at least nine residents, sharing the same ZIP code; LDH lists it as Level 2 (shelter care home) for 20 residents.
| Facility | Miles away | License type | Licensed capacity | First licensed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shekinah Glory 3613 Government Street, 70806 | 0.0 | Level 2 | 20 | 2009 |
| Holly Court Assisted Living and Memory Care 8585 Summa Avenue, 70808 | 3.2 | Level 3 | 154 | 2011 |
| Southside Gardens Assisted Living Center 4536 Perkins Road, 70808 | 3.2 | Level 3 | 48 | 1998 |
| St. James Place of Baton Rouge 333 Lee Drive, 70808 | 3.2 | Level 3 | 77 | 1997 |
| Fidelis King Richard 11710 King Richard Drive, 70815 | 3.5 | Level 2 | 12 | 2019 |
How close is Williamsburg Senior Living Community to a hospital?
Williamsburg Senior Living Community is located in the Downtown, Mid City & the Garden District part of Baton Rouge, and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is the closest acute-care hospital on LDH's roster, about 3.2 miles away by straight line.
Baton Rouge General Medical Center follows at roughly 5.0 miles. These are ZIP-centroid distances, not drive times.
For a later move to nursing home care, the closest CMS-certified homes are St. Clare Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation (1.0 mi, CMS 2 of 5) and Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF (1.0 mi, CMS 5 of 5).
East Baton Rouge Parish is inside the area LDH lists for PACE Baton Rouge, which combines Medicare and Medicaid services for people 55 and older who qualify for nursing home care but live in the community.
How should a family prepare for a tour of Williamsburg Senior Living Community?
Bring the state's checklist with you: find out where the newest state findings are posted and read the correction plan alongside them.
- Ask which outside home health agencies currently serve residents, since a Level 3 provider cannot supply nursing itself.
- Ask who sets up and gives medications, how errors are tracked, and whether medication help is priced by the number of drugs.
- Ask which changes in condition would end a residency, and keep in mind the 30-day appeal right Louisiana gives residents.
- Ask what triggers a move to a higher care fee, and confirm the 30-day written notice for rate changes.
- Ask to meet Tamika Rhinehart, the administrator named on the license, and who runs the building overnight.
