Santa Rosa Nursing Homes

Our site intends to provide seniors and their families with information about the general issues and complexities of nursing care. We want to aid their search in finding quality nursing care that meets their emotional, financial and medical needs.

Santa Rosa nursing homes are places of residence that offer social, medical and custodial care to seniors and patients with a variety of health needs. Sub-acute, acute, terminal, temporary and serious conditions are treated by a collaborate effort on part of all members of a nursing home's interdisciplinary team of caregivers. There are doctors, nurses, nursing aids, specialists, therapists, dietitians, non-medical personnel and social workers who strive to care for the individual needs of each patient.

Some Santa Rosa nursing homes, or skilled nursing facilities, have expert care units that specialize in the treatment of a specific medical condition. Apart from specialized care, area nursing homes provide short-term or long-term care.

Short-term care concentrates on helping patients rehabilitate from aneurisms, strokes, heart attacks, falls and other acute medical events. The bulk of short-term patients are funneled to nursing care after being hospitalized. Short-term care allows patients to restore and rebuild their strength through prescribed forms of therapy. They will have access to physical, occupational, speech, respiratory and auditory therapy and other rehabilitation services that are designed to efficiently help patients move to less comprehensive care. Patients do not normally fully recover in short-term care. Although some patients can resume their previous lives, many go on to seek in home or assisted living care once they are discharged.

As the first component to many short-term patients' medical treatment, hospital care can be vital to hindering or helping their outcome. Quality hospital care may shorten the time a patient needs to spend in nursing care. Doctors and specialists can also give patients useful information about area SNFs. The best hospitals in Santa Rosa, based on patients' previous hospital experiences, are Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa and Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Santa Rosa.

Long-term care gives extensive and extended treatment to patients with dementia, Alzheimer's, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, multiple sclerosis and other serious health conditions. Patients usually turn to long-term care because they have seen deterioration in an existing problem. These advanced and progressive diagnoses require responsive and expert levels of care to help maintain or improve a patient's health. Nursing homes are fully staffed with medical professionals who cooperatively work to treat all long-term patients. Nurses and physicians give routine check-ups and administer medical procedures like wound care, injections, blood testing, colostomies and tracheostomies. Custodial care is the responsibility of non-medical personnel who try to keep patients as comfortable as possible. Social workers and recreational planners try to keep facilities full of social interaction by holding events, outings, dinners and activities.

Monthly costs for Santa Rosa skilled nursing facility care are much higher than the California median. Private SNF residence costs $9,885 per month, more than $2,000 per month more than the median cost. Semi-private nursing home rooms run a monthly cost of $8,213, over $1,500 per month higher than the California median level.

Depending on the severity of a patient's medical conditions, the duration of a nursing stay can make the cost stratospheric. Although traditional health insurance does not cover skilled care, seniors and their families have a few options. Long-term care insurance policies can help to mitigate some of the expenses. Government programs are available to those over 65, Medicare, and those with limited assets and income, Medicaid. Medicare coverage pays for 100 days of nursing home stays during one benefit period. The first 20 days are fully covered while patients need to cover a copayment fee for the last 80 days. Medicaid eligibility is different in each state, so patients should be aware of what benefits they deserve under such rules.