Can people admit from a nursing home from the community?
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Anonymous
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Can they private pay, if they are not in need of rehab first and thus cannot use their Medicare days?
Thank you. |
Anonymous
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Not exactly sure what you are asking OP
Yes, one can full pay at most nursing homes. |
Anonymous
| Yes but you may have to search for availability- there are often wait lists, especially if you want a private room. |
Anonymous
| Get an elder care manager. They can assess if she would meet eligibility. They can call around if eligible. You can private pay first and then apply for medicaid |
Anonymous
I meant - can you get in without going to their rehab first. But I understand now that the answer is yes. |
Anonymous
| The answer is yes BUT there often isn’t availability unless you started out there earlier, especially if you want a private room. |
Anonymous
| If they have space and you have money, they will gladly take you and you do not have to come-up through any pipeline. If there's not space in the geographical area you prefer, you might have to look to other geographic areas. |
Anonymous
What’s going on with your loved one that they need a direct admit to a nursing home? Sometimes people seek ER admits then a referral. Our aunt ended up with a UTI, admitted to an ER, then sent to a nursing home for additional recovery (lived alone and ER staff indicated she need additional supervision). She did not return home. |
Anonymous
| There were people in my parents' CCR who were "per diem" residents of the skilled nursing unit. Either home hospice wasn't working out or the nursing home they'd been in wasn't meeting the family's needs/standards, so the family moved them. |
Anonymous
What does “per diem” mean in this context? |
Anonymous
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per day
(np here) it's Latin |
Anonymous
I don’t think that answer’s pp’s question. |
Anonymous
It means that rather than having a contract with the organization that ensured a resident would be able to stay in the community until death at a predictable monthly charge, they could pay a LOT of money to stay there as long as no CCR resident needed the bed. Management worked really hard to make sure no one got booted, but the contract with the nonmember was that they could have to bed for $X/day with Y amount of advance notice about increases or need to vacate. The contract with the member resident was "we will take care of you until you die." |
Anonymous
| Yes, you don't need an care manager or anyone you just call the nursing homes directly and go look at them. |