Monroe Nursing Homes Information

Nursing facilities employ a large body of healthcare workers, including registered and licensed nurses and physicians, food service workers, non-medical personnel, housekeepers, counselors, therapists and social workers, who work to provide proper and individualized caregiving.

The monthly cost of residency at a Monroe skilled nursing facility is well under the national average and below the Louisiana median level. Private SNF rooms bear a monthly cost of $4,439, about $300 per month less than the state median. Semi-private SNF accommodations cost $3,932 per month, more than $400 per month beneath the Louisiana median.

Nursing homes more generally care for patients who need either short-term or long-term care. Apart from those two forms of care, certain facilities offer amenities for family caregivers and their patients. Respite care is a short length of nursing care given to patients of family caretakers. This nursing care is mainly focused on helping caregivers sustain their physical and mental well-being, so care can be less strenuous after these breaks. Adult day health care is utilized by caregivers who hold down a job during the daytime. Daycare centers usually have services geared toward giving patients recreational and social opportunities.

Short-term care is designed to help quickly move patients back to the normal lives after being hospitalized for acute medical events like falls, strokes, aneurisms, operations or cardiac arrest. Patients are channeled from hospital care to a short-term nursing facility by their doctor. Hospital care is a vital stage of a patient’s recovery process. It can set the tone for future forms of treatment. The best health care centers in Monroe, based on patients’ past hospital experiences, are Ouachita Community Hospital and Glenwood Regional Medical Center. Most short-term nursing patients need some type of rehabilitation to rebuild their functioning to pre-event levels. Nursing professionals evaluate patients at regular intervals and prescribe treatment like speech, auditory, physical, respiratory and occupational therapy. Short-term patients do not reach full recuperation at a nursing facility. Instead, they often transfer to an assisted living facility or in home care arrangement.

Long-term care is given to patients who have intensive needs that will benefit from close examination and continuous health management. Patients often have serious medical conditions, like cancer, emphysema, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s, congestive heart failure, osteoarthritis and diabetes mellitus, that are in a state of decline upon first arrival. Nursing professionals do all they can to stop and reverse the deteriorating trend. Nurses and physicians are on call 24 hours a day to help patients stay on their care programs and to perform medical procedures like enteral feeding tubes, medication adjustment, ostomy care and injections. Patients’ activities of daily living like walking, feeding, grooming, toileting and bathing are completed with the help of non-medical personnel. The social component of nursing care contains a wide swath of services, ranging from counseling and self-care to recreation and leisure activities.

Patients who are elderly or disabled are eligible for government assistance to pay for some of the cost of nursing care through Medicare. These benefits offer a certain amount of financial support to patients who have recently been in the hospital for at least three days and then pursue nursing care. Medicare is quite limited in its benefits for nursing care patients. Only 20 days of nursing stays are fully covered by the program. Eighty days thereafter are partially covered, with the patient incurring a daily copayment fee. Talking with your State Financial Intermediary or your State Health Insurance Assistance Program can yield much more information on the many provisions of Medicare.