Shreveport Nursing Homes

Shreveport nursing homes provide quality medical and social care for seniors in need of assistance with daily living activities, extended term health maintenance and rehabilitative therapy. Known also as skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes deliver the most advanced medical treatment seniors and patients can find outside a hospital. Facilities have skilled personnel, including nurses, doctors, therapists, specialists, social and recreational personnel and non-medical staff, all trained to help patients with continuous health monitoring.

Shreveport skilled nursing facilities often contain specialized care units for particular medical problems. However, the two most general categories of care are short-term and long-term care. Short-term care administers rehabilitation for patients recovering from health crises like invasive surgeries, falls, heart attacks, strokes and aneurisms. Through comprehensive planning and action, nursing care helps patients rebuild lost strength and function with physical, occupational, respiratory and speech therapies. Once short-term patients have recuperated to a certain point, they are either able to return home or able to move to less inclusive care options, like assisted living care, in home care or senior apartments. Long-term care consists of extensive medical treatment for those with serious and chronic conditions. Some patients are partially or fully bedridden. Around-the-clock care is given to those with physical or mental illnesses like Alzheimer’s, dementia, cardiovascular disease, multiple sclerosis or general physical decline. Medical personnel provide support by giving check-ups and performing complex medical procedures. They try to maintain or improve long-term patients’ levels of health. Non-medical caregivers help patients with custodial care, which can include dressing, travelling, eating and bathing.

Medical crises that require a hospitalization often result in a short-term nursing stay. The patient's physician will decide to approve nursing care during a hospital stay if further treatment is necessary. The best hospital care will help patients properly start their recovery process. In Shreveport, the most quality health care services, based on patients’ hospital experiences, can be found at Specialists Hospital Shreveport and Willis Knighton Medical Center.

Louisiana has nursing care costs that fall well under the national average. Shreveport’s nursing costs are right around the Louisiana median. Private and semi-private SNF rooms bear a monthly cost of $4,563 and $4,774, respectively. Other senior care services also have relatively inexpensive costs. Homemaker services and home health aide cost $2,717 and $2,860, respectively. Assisted living facility rooms have an expected monthly cost of $2,940.

Some nursing homes have reputations for giving improper care or for having inadequate facilities. Furthermore, reports of neglect and abuse have made nursing homes a sore subject for many seniors and their families. Some often vow never to put their aging parents into a home, while some parents ask their children never to subject them to nursing care. These concerns make the real need for nursing care very stressful and challenging, since around 70 percent of seniors will need long-term care during their lifetime. Our site wants all who need nursing care to be able to find a comfortable and quality SNF that has attentive, compassionate, dedicated and well-trained personnel. We want to give them all the information possible so they can find an option that fits their emotional, financial and medical requirements.