Worcester Nursing Homes Information

A multidisciplinary team of nursing professionals, including physicians, nurses, non-medical caregivers and other health-care workers, manage, observe, evaluate and treat the specific needs of both types of care.

Short-term care focuses on rehabilitation from an acute medical event, most commonly strokes, aneurisms and falls, that put patients in a hospital. This post-hospital treatment is there to help patients regain lost functions and strength. Patients will have access to occupational, respiratory, speech, physical or other specialty therapies to bridge them between hospital care and less advanced types of care, like in home, assisted living or senior apartment options.

Since the first stop on a patient’s recovery from a medical crisis is a hospitalization, getting the best hospital care possible is an important consideration. Worcester’s most quality health care services, based on patients’ hospital experiences, can be found at St. Vincent Hospital and UMass Memorial Medical Center Inc.

Long-term care treatment is centered on the medical and social health management of dementia, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and other serious physical or mental problems. Long-term care patients typically have declining conditions that have outgrown a previous form of care. Although this decline can sometimes warrant eventual hospice care, many long-term patients see improved health through nursing care. Doctors and nurses work to support individual’s functions through routine check-ups and medical procedures like medicine administration, intravenous care, wound care, diabetes management and colostomy and tracheostomy care. Non-medical workers are at the ready to give assistance to patients in need of custodial care. Social engagement and interaction is stimulated through home-wide activities, events and trips.

Worcester’s nursing care costs are much higher than the national average but fall a few hundred dollars per month below the Massachusetts median. Semi-private and private SNF accommodations cost $9,323 and $9,733 per month, respectively.

Transitioning to nursing care is an emotionally challenging task for many seniors and their families. Patients themselves have to deal with a loss of social independence and often feel they do not deserve to be in skilled nursing care. Oftentimes, families must seek nursing care for their aging parents because they can no longer properly treat them comfortable. It is a choice their parents do not willingly undertake. Researching and finding the best nursing home for the specific needs of each patient is the most effective way to ensure they will receive quality, compassionate and dedicated skilled nursing care.