Canton Nursing Homes

Our site aims to give seniors and their families information about the many complex aspects and general facts about nursing care. We want them to be able to make an educated decision that will help them find a nursing home with compassionate, committed, well-trained and vigilant caregivers at an affordable cost and appropriate location.

Canton nursing homes are places of residence that offer advanced forms of custodial, medical and social care for patients with a broad variety of health issues. Residents pursue nursing care because they have diagnoses that cannot be properly treated by less inclusive forms of care. Patients with acute, sub-acute, terminal, permanent, temporary and serious medical conditions are treated by an interdisciplinary team of nursing personnel, including doctors, nurses, social workers, specialists, therapists and non-medical staff. Each caregiver plays a role helping each patient obtain their personal health objectives.

Some Canton nursing homes, or skilled nursing facilities contain special care units for specific illnesses like kidney disease or diabetes. Aside from specialized care, Canton skilled nursing facilities have general amenities that offer short-term or long-term care.

Short-term care delivers the provision of rehabilitation services to patients recovering from acute medical events that forced them to be hospitalized. The most common causes of short-term nursing visits are strokes, falls and aneurisms. Under short-term care, patients follow an individualized plan of recuperation that helps them regain their highest level of functioning and minimize the damage caused by their medical crisis. Patients often utilize occupational, physical, speech or auditory therapy to reach a level of health where they can pursue less inclusive medical care. At that level, discharge planners advise patients on appropriate in home, assisted living, or other lower levels of care.

As the initial form of medical treatment for nearly 75 percent of short-term nursing patients, hospital care can greatly affect the outcome of a patient’s recovery process. Well-credentialed doctors can help patients jumpstart their recovery in the first few days after an acute medical crisis. Canton’s most quality health care services, based on patients’ prior hospital experiences, can be found at Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center.

Long-term care concentrates on treating patients with moderate to severe physical and mental disabilities. Patients are often driven to seek long-term care because an existing condition, such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, multiple sclerosis, kidney disease or dementia, has deteriorated past a level their prior form of care could properly treat. These patients have symptoms that require a collaborative response from all facility caregivers. Nurses and physicians perform regular health checks and medical procedures like injections, blood testing, medication adjustments, intravenous therapy, colostomies and tracheostomies. Non-medical personnel offer patients help with activities of daily living like eating, traveling, bathing and dressing. Social workers provide a certain level of companionship by spending time to get to know patients.

Nursing care costs in Canton fall under the Ohio state median and near the national average. Private and semi-private SNF rooms cost $6,266 and $5,901 per month, respectively. Homemaker services and home health aide both have monthly costs of $3,241. Adult day health care and assisted living facility bedrooms cost $975 and $4,150 per month, respectively.

The process of finding a quality nursing home is often confusing and challenging for seniors and their families. There are many considerations they must weigh when choosing a skilled nursing facility. One of the most effective ways of narrowing down your list of SNFs is to visit each of them. During visits, be sure to jot down the amenities available, including room sizes, odor, staff to resident ratio, personnel turnover rates, social activities and the general atmosphere. In general, nursing homes that display happy and lively patients and staff are more likely to deliver quality and proper care.