St. Paul Nursing Homes

St. Paul nursing homes are places of residence and periodic to continuous health management for patients with moderate to major medical conditions that impair their ability to live independently. Also called skilled nursing facilities, nursing home personnel, including doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists and specialists, attempt to maintain or rehabilitate their patients’ health levels. Nursing facilities offer the most advanced level of medical care outside of a hospital and often specialize in taking care of certain medical conditions.

The two most general categories for St. Paul skilled nursing facilities are those offering short-term care and those offering long-term care. Select SNFs are able to provide both types of care. Short-term care is for patients in need of rehabilitation services. They may have had an acute medical crisis, like a stroke or aneurism, or an accident, like a fall. Nursing facilities will provide patients with therapy services, like physical, occupational, speech or respiratory therapy, in order to help short-term patients return to their lives or move to less comprehensive care. Long-term care deals with serious medical problems. Long-term patients may be partially or fully bedridden or may have illnesses such as dementia, Parkinson’s or neurological and cardiovascular problems. The facility’s medical caregivers supply proper medical care to help maintain or improve long-term patients’ health. They perform complicated medical procedures that include wound care, medicine dosage and routine blood work. Non-medical staff provide a level of companionship through social engagement and aid with custodial care.

Most long-term stays result from a declining condition while most short-term stays are preceded by an abrupt need for hospitalization. Patients with the need for further medical treatment will be required by their doctor to seek nursing care after their hospital stay. Quality hospital care will allow future short-term patients access to top notch care so they can recovery quicker and knowledgeable physicians for the best referrals. The most quality St. Paul hospitals, based on patients’ hospital experiences, are Regions Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Nursing care costs in St. Paul sit a few hundred dollars above the Minnesota median level and quite a bit above the national average. Semi-private and private SNF rooms have an expected monthly cost of $6,793 and $7,664, respectively.

Seniors and their families are often weary of nursing care due to reports of improper or abusive care or the belief that people do not see health improvements under nursing care. Both views do not represent the majority of SNFs. Many long-term patients are able to move to some sort of home care, assisted living care or even senior apartments. While there are reports of bad nursing homes, there are also many that are committed to providing the finest quality care. Our site wants seniors and their loved ones to understand the complexities of nursing care so they can find well-trained, dedicated, vigilant and professional care to match their financial, medical and emotional needs.