Tallahassee Nursing Homes Information

Short-term care concentrates on aiding patients recovering from acute medical crises, like heart attacks, strokes, aneurisms and falls. Nearly three-quarters of all short-term stays occur after a hospital stay. In this type of outpatient care, patients follow an individualized plan so they can move to less comprehensive levels of care. These plans often include physical, respiratory, speech, occupational and other types of specialized therapy. Full recovery is not the goal of short-term care, rather it is to help patients get to a point where they can pursue in home or assisted living care.

Due to the vital role hospital care plays in a patient’s eventual recovery, receiving the best care possible during a hospital visit can affect a patient’s health down the road. Quality physicians can also help patients with recommendations on area nursing homes. Tallahassee’s highest quality health care services, based on patients’ hospital experiences, are at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare and Capital Region Medical Center.

Long-term nursing care deals with severely mentally or physically disabled patients. They may have Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer or general physical decline. Patients may be partially to fully bedridden and need continuous care and monitoring. Medical caregivers do as much as they can to care for patients with many different illnesses and diagnoses. This includes routine check-ups and complex procedures like blood testing, wound treatment, colostomies and medicine dosage. Custodial care is met by non-medical workers. Many long-term patients seek such care because their former type of care could not treat them properly. Often, nursing care improves a patient’s level of health such that he or she can move back to a lesser level of care.

Tallahassee skilled nursing facilities cost more than $200 below the Florida state median. Semi-private and private SNF accommodations cost $6,083 and $6,844 per month, respectively. Homemaker services, home health aide and adult day health care have monthly costs of $3,241, $3,432 and $1,083, respectively. Assisted living facility bedrooms cost $4,330 per month.

It is important for Medicare recipients to understand that the program does not cover more than a few percent of the total cost of nursing care. Medicare fully covers only 20 days of nursing visitation in a single benefit period. A co-payment fee is required for each of the next 80 days of coverage, with coverage stopping after the 100th day. Also, Medicare will not cover patients only in need of custodial care.