Hartford Nursing Homes

Hartford nursing homes provide the most advanced medical and social care possible outside a hospital. Residents need high levels of treatment and extensive rehabilitation and health management through expert evaluation and observation. Hartford area nursing facilities tend to a wide variety of acute, sub-acute, chronic, temporary and terminal illnesses. Nursing homes, or skilled nursing facilities, have interdisciplinary teams of caregivers that understand how to optimally care for the specific needs of each patient.

Many Hartford skilled nursing facilities have special care units for health problems like spinal injuries or diabetes. The two most general forms of nursing care are short-term and long-term care.

Short-term care focuses on rehabilitating patients so they can move to less inclusive care. A large percentage of short-term patients require outpatient care because they were hospitalized for a heart attack, fall, stroke, aneurism or other acute medical crisis. Nursing personnel work on an individualized plan that helps each patient recover effectively and efficiently. This course of action often includes physical, occupational, speech, auditory or respiratory therapy to restore strength and function, rebuild mobility and minimize long-term problems. Discharged short-term patients still with the need for further medical attention usually move to assisted living or in home care.

Hospital care is an essential part of a short-term patient’s recovery. Quality health care at the first level of recuperation can affect how it fully pans out. The best hospital services in Hartford, based on patients’ prior hospital experiences, can be found at Hartford Hospital and St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center.

Long-term care patients typically have Alzheimer’s, dementia, multiple sclerosis, kidney or cardiovascular disease, cancer or other severe physical and mental diagnoses. Often, long-term patients need advanced care because their declining condition forced them to seek more inclusive care. Patients’ serious medical conditions are treated by a collaborative and collective effort on part of many multidisciplinary caregivers. Doctors and nurses offer 24/7 monitoring and perform medical skills such as wound care, blood testing, colostomies, tracheostomies, injections and intravenous therapy. Patients who need help dressing, eating, traveling, washing or finishing other activities of daily living are aided by the facility’s non-medical staff. Social workers are present to give patients a certain level of companionship.

Hartford’s nursing care costs sit very close to the Connecticut median level. Semi-private SNF rooms have an expected cost of $11,193 per month. Private SNF rooms will bear a monthly cost of $12,159. Homemaker services, home health aide and adult day health care cost $3,527, $3,909 and $1,625 per month, respectively. Assisted living facility accommodations cost $4,475 per month.

Proper and thorough planning and preparation can help seniors and their families find the most quality nursing care possible in the area. They do not have to make such an important decision on their own. There are many resources available that can aid the search for the right nursing home. Online state databases record complaints filed against nursing homes. Your local long-term care ombudsman is a wealth of information about patients' rights, local facility complaints and finding an affordable solution.

Our site wants to give seniors and their loved ones the information they need to reach a final decision that results in a skilled nursing facility that meets their emotional, financial and medical needs.