Newark Nursing Homes

Newark nursing homes offer a place of residence for seniors and patients in need of social and medical treatment too serious for less comprehensive care and not appropriate for hospital care. Nursing homes, also called skilled nursing facilities, specialize in rehabilitation and long-term care management. Expert nursing professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists and recreational and non-medical caregivers, provide custodial and around-the-clock nursing care to match the individual needs of each patient.

Most Newark skilled nursing facilities have special care units to accommodate specific medical conditions, such as Alzheimer’s or dementia. Nursing facilities are most generally broken down into two categories, short-term and long-term care facilities. Short-term care patients have temporary rehabilitative needs due to recent acute medical events. Short-term patients most commonly need care because of a recent stroke, fall, aneurism or heart attack. Recuperative therapies, like physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy, are undertaken on a prescribed basis. This type of care mainly focuses on helping patients move to less comprehensive levels of care or to resume their previous lives. Long-term care concentrates on extended skilled care for patients with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, liver and cardiovascular problems, general physical decline or other serious medical conditions. Long-term patients may be partially or fully bedridden. Nursing homes provide all the medical treatment, supplies and modalities necessary to maintain or improve long-term patients’ levels of health. Doctors and physicians perform medical procedures while non-medical caregivers aid with activities of daily living. Social workers are on hand to give a level of companionship. Although some long-term patients will need hospice care, others are able to seek assisted living or in home care services.

Long-term care patients usually seek admittance to a SNF due to a decline in a known medical condition. Short-term SNF stays are normally needed due to a recent hospitalization from a medical event or accident. Some hospitals have nursing care complexes attached to their health care centers, but usually doctors will require and refer a nursing home if the patient needs further care. Future short-term patients should try to receive the best hospital care possible because a hospital stay is their first instance of treatment during their recovery. The most quality health care services in Newark can be found at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Clara Maass Medical Center.

Newark’s proximity to New York City makes its nursing care costs fall well above the national average and higher than the New Jersey median. Semi-private SNF accommodations bear a monthly cost of $9,308. Private SNF rooms cost $10,190 per month.

The high cost of nursing care is exacerbated by its limited coverage of many insurance plans. Seniors and families often have to pay out of pocket or privately finance the cost. Those under Medicare need to be aware that it only covers up to 100 days of nursing care during one benefit period. The first 20 days are fully covered, but the last 80 days are subject to a copayment fee. Patients only in need of custodial care will not be insured by Medicare.

Our site wants to help seniors and their loved ones understand the complex matters of nursing care so they can find compassionate, vigilant and quality care at the right cost and location.