Patients at St. Elizabeth Manor now have more privacy, comfort and technology to help them recover from their various ailments, thanks to a large renovation the nursing facility recently unveiled.

The nursing facility, at 1 Dawn Hill Road in Bristol, has spent the last two years gutting and rebuilding the North wing in a $5 million project. Opened earlier this month, the new wing features many more private rooms and a new, state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility.

The wing has gone from three private rooms previously to 21 now, allowing residents more comfort and privacy to help in their recovery, according to Elizabeth Russell, St. Elizabeth’s administrator. Previously, each room would house two residents, who would share a bathroom with two more residents or patients in an adjoining room.

“We added more privacy, not more residency,” Ms. Russell said. “The most common thing patients said they wanted was a private room, a private shower. People really like the new rooms.”

In addition to the increased privacy, the new rooms feature much improved amenities, including an adjustable bed (which one short-term resident said was much more comfortable than a hospital bed), electric recliner, flatscreen TVs, wireless Internet access, private walk-in showers, and big windows, many of which afford a view of the duck pond, llamas and donkey wandering around outside.

The most obvious of the improvements is St. Elizabeth’s brand new rehab facility. Serving both long-term residents and short-term patients, the rehab room aims to aid the recovery of patients with virtually any ailment. There are parallel bars to help patients relearn to walk, exercise machines to strengthen muscles, and a portable staircase to practice navigating steps.

The room has new integrated technology, including an electrical stimulation machine, an ultrasound machine to help increase blood flow to help healing, even a Nintendo Wii video game system for low impact exercises to improve hand-eye coordination.

Beyond physical therapy, the facility also includes an occupational therapy component, helping clients prepare to return to life at home. It includes a full kitchen, bath and laundry room to let them practice basic life skills under supervision before returning to life on their own.

While the therapy room is currently available just to long- and short-term residents, Ms. Russell said St. Elizabeth is planning to open the facility to outpatient services in the near future.

St. Elizabeth has 133 beds, most of which are reserved for patients who live at the facility long-term. About 30 are short-term residents recovering from surgery or an injury. St. Elizabeth services all ages of patients referred by doctors for all manner of ailment — everything from heart attacks and strokes to injuries from car accidents. The diversity of treatment keeps the staff busy.

“As soon as someone discharges, their room is filled that afternoon,” Ms. Russell said.

For more information about St. Elizabeth Manor and all the St. Elizabeth facilities, visit stelizabethcommunity.org, or call 401-253-2300 to schedule a visit.