Fresno Nursing Homes

Fresno nursing homes offer the most advanced medical treatment outside of a hospital. Seniors and patients with specific nursing care needs turn to nursing homes for continuous care and residence. Most seniors are recovering from an acute medical event or need help maintaining serious medical conditions. Nursing homes, also called skilled nursing facilities, have physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, social workers and therapists to keep their residents as comfortable and healthy as possible.

Most Fresno skilled nursing homes either focus on short-term care or long-term care. Short-term stays are for patients who need rehabilitation. Nursing homes work with patients on a personalized plan to rebuild their former strength and function. This includes services such as physical, speech, occupational and respiratory therapy. For short-term patients, nursing care has the goal of helping patients recover to lesser levels of care. Discharged short-term patients often turn to assisted living care or in home residential senior care. Fully recovered patients resume their previous lives. Long-term care patients have severe mental or physical disabilities that leave them partially or completely bedridden. Nurses and doctors perform complicated medical procedures and regular medical duties for long-term patients. Non-medical staff and nurses aid patients with activities of daily living such as walking, dressing, bathing, eating and using the bathroom. Other health professionals are on hand to engage in social activities and offer a certain level of companionship to patients.

Long-term patients typically need to pursue nursing care because their conditions have deteriorated past a level their previous caregivers can provide. Nearly three-fourths of short-term patients were previously hospitalized due to an acute medical event like a stroke, aneurism or fall. Some of these patients need invasive surgery. If they need further medical treatment and time to recover after a hospital stay, their doctors will require a nursing care stay. Doctors should be able to give recommendations for the best area nursing homes. Top quality health care can also allow patients to effectively start their recovery process before heading to nursing care. In Fresno, the most quality health care, based on patients' hospital experiences, is found at Saint Agnes Medical Center and Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Fresno.

Fresno nursing care costs are higher than the national average, but sit around the California median level. For a semi-private room in a SNF patients can expect to pay $6,956 per month. Private rooms will run a monthly cost of $7,726.

Nursing care is often denigrated due to reports of negligence or improper care. This connotation is not fully deserved or representative of the industry as a whole. There are many quality skilled nursing facilities. Our site wants to give seniors and their families all the information they need to find a quality nursing home. We believe they deserve committed, vigilant and quality nursing care that corresponds to their financial, emotional and medical needs.