Nicest nursing homes in Montgomery County with Medicaid beds?

[Anonymous]

Need to find a nursing home with Medicaid beds for mom. She has a little bit of money that she could first put towards a non-Medicaid bed, so maybe that will open the door to a few better options?

[Anonymous]

Please avoid Montcare Potomac. Maybe all nursing homes are equally bad but they were perpetually understaffed. There were many kind workers but it was typical to only have one nurse for an entire corridor and the nursing assistants were overworked resulting in my loved one waiting an hour or more at certain times of day. She was left to have accidents because she couldn’t get to the bathroom. Later she was left in dirty diapers for hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please avoid Montcare Potomac. Maybe all nursing homes are equally bad but they were perpetually understaffed. There were many kind workers but it was typical to only have one nurse for an entire corridor and the nursing assistants were overworked resulting in my loved one waiting an hour or more at certain times of day. She was left to have accidents because she couldn’t get to the bathroom. Later she was left in dirty diapers for hours.

This may be due to the challenges of finding staff, but may also be due to corporations successfully lobbying to lower patient/resident to staff ratios. Lots of folks blame blue state guvs for COVID deaths in nursing homes but refuse to acknowledge that the Trump admin weakened nursing home regs that may have limited/stemmed contagion.

Start with the nonprofits and see if they have openings. I'm sure not all are tops, but I've had much better experience with them. Nothing like overhearing staff at the nonprofit home talk amongst themselves about how great it is to open a supply closet and find the supplies needed to do their job, usually not the case for them at the corporate-owned homes.

[Anonymous]

How is Ingleside? And do they take Medicaid?

[Anonymous]

avoid Montcare Potomac at all costs. My mom was there from Nov 2023 until I pulled her out of there in an ambulance in March 2024. Inside that horror show she caught covid, fell, and almost died as a result of their negligence. The understaffing is only half the story. Some of the workers care, and others, just have a nasty attitude. My mom was also left in dirty soiled diapers for hours. I now take care of her myself and with a private caregiver at home. I would not wish Montcare Potomac on anyone. My mother in law's mom also died in there from a fall in 2018.

[Anonymous]

We had a horrible experience at Brooke Grove. Honestly, you don't have much of a choice and will need to take who ever offers you a bed. You have to do medicaid pending so they take you in the bed, then apply for medicaid so if you are not found eligible they lose out on that money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please avoid Montcare Potomac. Maybe all nursing homes are equally bad but they were perpetually understaffed. There were many kind workers but it was typical to only have one nurse for an entire corridor and the nursing assistants were overworked resulting in my loved one waiting an hour or more at certain times of day. She was left to have accidents because she couldn’t get to the bathroom. Later she was left in dirty diapers for hours.

This may be due to the challenges of finding staff, but may also be due to corporations successfully lobbying to lower patient/resident to staff ratios. Lots of folks blame blue state guvs for COVID deaths in nursing homes but refuse to acknowledge that the Trump admin weakened nursing home regs that may have limited/stemmed contagion.

Start with the nonprofits and see if they have openings. I'm sure not all are tops, but I've had much better experience with them. Nothing like overhearing staff at the nonprofit home talk amongst themselves about how great it is to open a supply closet and find the supplies needed to do their job, usually not the case for them at the corporate-owned homes.

It's not any better at for profit vs. non-profit. Non-profit sounds better but it's not.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much all of the ones that will accept someone who is already on Medicaid are going to be unacceptable. The best hope I would say is Little Sisters of the Poor in DC. However there is a law that says a nursing home that does not accept Medicaid for admitting residents, must accept Medicare from an existing resident if that person has lived there for a certain period of time. My recommendation is to get together enough cash to pay for that duration at a place you like and then switch to Medicaid.

[Anonymous]

Back to add: Montcare was so bad, we caught one of the aides moving the call bell remote out of my mom's reach a number of times. On the weekend, my mom waited FOUR HOURS for someone to come help her to the bathroom. She ended up pooping herself in bed and no one came back for FOUR HOURS to help clean her. She is a timid, sweet lady, and cried daily until I could come up with the cash to get her out of there. I felt awful the entire time she was there. If you end up putting anyone at Montcare, please, for the love of God, visit them daily, you have to stay on top of LITERALLY EVERYTHING in that facility. The building "looks nice" but it is not a well run place. I feel really bad for having put my mom in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of the ones that will accept someone who is already on Medicaid are going to be unacceptable. The best hope I would say is Little Sisters of the Poor in DC. However there is a law that says a nursing home that does not accept Medicaid for admitting residents, must accept Medicare from an existing resident if that person has lived there for a certain period of time. My recommendation is to get together enough cash to pay for that duration at a place you like and then switch to Medicaid.

PP I apologize for the typo the bold “Medicare” should be Medicaid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please avoid Montcare Potomac. Maybe all nursing homes are equally bad but they were perpetually understaffed. There were many kind workers but it was typical to only have one nurse for an entire corridor and the nursing assistants were overworked resulting in my loved one waiting an hour or more at certain times of day. She was left to have accidents because she couldn’t get to the bathroom. Later she was left in dirty diapers for hours.

This may be due to the challenges of finding staff, but may also be due to corporations successfully lobbying to lower patient/resident to staff ratios. Lots of folks blame blue state guvs for COVID deaths in nursing homes but refuse to acknowledge that the Trump admin weakened nursing home regs that may have limited/stemmed contagion.

Start with the nonprofits and see if they have openings. I'm sure not all are tops, but I've had much better experience with them. Nothing like overhearing staff at the nonprofit home talk amongst themselves about how great it is to open a supply closet and find the supplies needed to do their job, usually not the case for them at the corporate-owned homes.

It's not any better at for profit vs. non-profit. Non-profit sounds better but it's not.

I can only go with our experience and the non-profit nursing home was heads and shoulders better than the for-profits.

This was not in large metro area, so perhaps that played a factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of the ones that will accept someone who is already on Medicaid are going to be unacceptable. The best hope I would say is Little Sisters of the Poor in DC. However there is a law that says a nursing home that does not accept Medicaid for admitting residents, must accept Medicare from an existing resident if that person has lived there for a certain period of time. My recommendation is to get together enough cash to pay for that duration at a place you like and then switch to Medicaid.

Is that a state or federal law? do you have a cite for that? very interesting.

[Anonymous]

Sterling Care Bethesda is better than average. My dad was there for 5 months until he moved to a different facility closer to my parents' home.

Staffing is difficult everywhere and especially on weekends.

It was meant to be rehab, but it becam apparent that things weren't going to get better. Hence, it sadly turned into long term care...lots of complex issues which made home care impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back to add: Montcare was so bad, we caught one of the aides moving the call bell remote out of my mom's reach a number of times. On the weekend, my mom waited FOUR HOURS for someone to come help her to the bathroom. She ended up pooping herself in bed and no one came back for FOUR HOURS to help clean her. She is a timid, sweet lady, and cried daily until I could come up with the cash to get her out of there. I felt awful the entire time she was there. If you end up putting anyone at Montcare, please, for the love of God, visit them daily, you have to stay on top of LITERALLY EVERYTHING in that facility. The building "looks nice" but it is not a well run place. I feel really bad for having put my mom in there.

Im so sorry that happened to your mom. My mom also went to a SNF but in VA. It was so bad I pulled her out 2 days later.

She is now living in an independent senior home 10 minutes from me and I have cameras in her apartment. I visit daily and she can do some things on her own like make a simple meal and go to the bathroom. I clean, do laundry and grocery shop for her as well as take her to appointments.

It’s not easy but neither my sister nor I were willing to leave her in that hole of a nursing home

[Anonymous]

You all scaring me about Montcare Potomac. I sadly dont have other options