Waterbury Nursing Homes Information

The two broadest categories of nursing care are short-term and long-term care. Some Waterbury skilled nursing facilities also specialize in caring for particular medical conditions, like dementia or kidney disease.

Short-term care is for patients who have recently been victim of a stroke, aneurism, fall, heart attack or other acute medical event. Short-term patients are helped along an individualized plan of care by doctors, nurses and other professionals. Patients are able to regain lost strength and function and limit the damage of their medical event through specialized therapy services. This often includes respiratory, speech, auditory, physical, occupational or other special therapy methods. The main goal of short-term care is to help patients reach a point where they can move to less inclusive care. Once patients are near that level of health, discharge planners advise patients on available options, like assisted living or in home care.

It is important for patients to get the finest hospital care possible because it is the first component to a future short-term patient’s recovery. The best health care services in Waterbury, based on patients’ previous hospital experiences, can be found at Saint Mary’s Hospital.

Long-term care is for patients with Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis or other severe physical or mental disabilities. Some patients move to long-term care because an existing condition has outgrown a lower level of care. Long-term patients require extensive, responsive and attentive medical treatment. Each member of a facility’s interdisciplinary team of caregivers plays a certain role in managing the health of every long-term patient. Physicians and nurses prescribe a proper course of action, deliver routine check-ups and perform medical procedures like injections, medicine dosage adjustments, intravenous therapy and tracheostomies. Non-medical staff aid patients with dressing, eating, traveling, bathing and other activities of daily living. Social workers and recreational planners give patients companionship by eating and talking with patients and accompanying them to events, activities, games and trips.

Waterbury’s nursing care costs are well above the national average but a fair amount under the Connecticut state median. Semi-private and private SNF rooms have expected monthly costs of $10,570 and $11,422, respectively.

Seniors and their families are often very weary of moving to nursing care. They are sometimes scared of the possibility of improper or abusive care at the hands of nursing personnel. Other times, patients do not think they need nursing care. Sometimes adult children do not want to leave their parents in a home because they feel they will be giving up their parents for good. Even though all these factors may make people tentative of pursuing nursing care, once the need is real, proper preparation and planning are key to finding the best facility for you and your loved ones.