San Mateo Nursing Homes

San Mateo nursing homes are places of residence for seniors and patients that need rehabilitative services or long-term health management. Nursing homes, or skilled nursing facilities, treat patients who have a variety of health issues, including terminal, chronic, permanent, acute, sub-acute and temporary conditions. Patients are monitored, observed, evaluated and treated by a multidisciplinary team of caregivers, which includes physicians, nurses, specialists, social workers, therapists and non-medical personnel.

Nursing care is broken down into two categories that encompass all types of treatment; short-term and long-term care. Some institutions also have specialized care units that are usually separated from their general amenities.

Short-term care focuses on delivering rehabilitation services to patients who are recuperating from an acute medical incident that put them in the hospital. Patients most frequently need nursing care to recover from the effects of strokes, aneurisms and falls. This form of outpatient care aims to rehabilitate patients to a level where they can appropriately pursue a less inclusive care option. Nursing professionals put patients on an individualized track of recovery that often utilizes physical, speech, occupational, respiratory or other specialty kinds of therapy. Patients who still have the need for medical treatment after a short-term stay usually move to in home or assisted living care.

An estimated 75 percent of short-term nursing patients were funneled from a hospital to a nursing facility. Hospital care is an essential part of a patient’s road to full recovery. Proper treatment during the first few days after a medical crisis can help patients eventually have a successful outcome. The best hospitals in San Mateo, based on patients’ hospital experiences, are San Mateo Medical Center and Peninsula Medical Center.

Long-term nursing patients have moderate to severe physical and mental disabilities that inhibit their ability to live independently. They have illnesses and diagnoses like Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer, kidney disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s that require advanced forms of social, medical and custodial care. Nursing home caregivers must coordinate and correspond with each other to provide extensive and responsive care. Nurses and doctors execute medical procedures like continuous health checks, medication adjustment, injections, intravenous therapy, wound care, blood testing, colostomies and tracheostomies. Non-medical personnel are responsible for attending to patients’ general comfort, hygiene and activities of daily living. Social workers and recreational planners try to make nursing homes socially interactive and lively by holding games, events, dinners and short trips.

Monthly costs for San Mateo skilled nursing facility residency fall around $1,200 per month above the California median level. Private and semi-private SNF rooms bear a monthly cost of $9,049 and $8,137 per month, respectively.

Seniors citizens over 65 and the disabled population may have a certain amount of their nursing care costs covered by Medicare. Patients must adhere to certain requirements before qualifying for Medicare benefits. Medicare does not cover patients who only have the need for custodial care. Prior to moving to a nursing home they must have been in the hospital for at least three days. Coverage is also somewhat limited and usually only accounts for a small percentage of the overall cost of nursing care. Medicare will fully cover 20 days of stays. 80 more days are partially covered; the patient needs to pay a daily copayment. That is all Medicare will cover for one benefit period. Contacting your Medicare Fiscal Intermediary or State Health Insurance Assistance Program can give you more information about the program.

Our site hopes to give seniors and their families information that will allow them to better understand the many aspects of nursing care, so they can find a qualify SNF with quality amenities and compassionate, dedicated and well-trained caregivers.