Albany GA Skilled Nursing Centers | Nursing Homes

These units, often separated from the amenities of general care, are equipped to offer specialized forms of treatment to patients with conditions like Alzheimer’s.

Short-term care focuses on supporting the rehabilitation efforts of patients who have been hospitalized for an acute medical incident. These patients most frequently seek short-term nursing stays on doctor’s orders after a fall, aneurism or stroke. For around 75 percent of patients, nursing care is a continuation of the recovery process that was begun in the hospital. Personnel assist patients by helping them follow an individualized path of recovery, often based around respiratory, physical, speech or occupational therapy. The goal of a short-term nursing stay is to help patients progress to a level of functioning where they can move to a lower level of care, like assisted living or in home care.

Excellent hospital care can greatly benefit a patient's response to future forms of rehabilitation. It is important for short-term nursing patients to find the best possible hospital care they can, under the circumstances, to receive proper medical treatment in the direct aftermath of their medical incident. Albany GA’s most quality hospitals, based on patients’ hospital experiences, are Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital and Phoebe North.

Long-term care is centered on delivering personalized treatment to patients who have serious medical conditions like dementia, kidney disease, neurological disorders, multiple sclerosis or general physical or mental decline. These patients often exhibit advanced symptoms that require a responsive and collaborative effort on part of the entire facility’s network of caregivers. Nurses and physicians offer continuous care and execute medical procedures like blood testing, medication adjustment, dialysis, injections, respiratory therapy and colostomies. Non-medical personnel are present to ensure patients’ activities of daily living are completed. Social workers try to get to know patients personally by talking to them, eating with them and accompanying them on trips and to activities.

Nursing care costs in Albany GA are very close to the Georgia median level and a good bit below the national average. Private and semi-private SNF accommodations run monthly costs of $5,353 and $5,080, respectively.

The negative connotations and stigma associated with both nursing homes and their patients have pushed many seniors and their families to choose assisted living care over skilled care. This popularity, although well intentioned, ignores the unforeseen consequences that may come of such a choice. In some cases, when seniors are put in assisted living care when they really need nursing care, they will not receive the services that can help them improve their health. Nursing care is able to give regular to continuous monitoring and is legally allowed to administer medication. Assisted living facilities in certain states are only allowed to hand patients their medicine. There is no way to ensure patients will properly adhere to medication management schedules. Furthermore, patients who need frequent bed changings will not usually receive them under assisted living care. Seniors and their families should understand their specific needs so they do not pursue the wrong type of care on a whim. This is occurring to more and more people because of the bad rap given to nursing homes, evidenced by the fact that a large number of assisted living patients move to nursing care.

Our site aims to give seniors and their loved ones important information about the various complexities associated with nursing care, so they can ultimately find a SNF to match their financial, emotional and medical needs.

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