Skilled Nursing
Meadow View Nursing Center has Registered Nurses who help provide 24-hour care to people who can no longer care for themselves due to physical, emotional, or mental conditions. A licensed physician supervises each patient's care. Skilled medical care includes services of trained professionals that are needed for a limited period of time following an injury or illness.
Care might consist of an R.N. doing wound care and changing dressings after a major surgery or administering and monitoring I.V. antibiotics for a severe infection. Or a physical therapist helping to correct and strengthen balance problems that have made it difficult for a patient to walk or get on and off the bed, or furniture. A speech therapist helping a person regain the ability to communicate after a stroke, or an occupational therapist helping a person relearn independent self-care in areas such as dressing, grooming or eating.
Each person's need for care or assistance is unique. Some individuals have a short-term need, perhaps caused by a fall or broken hip. Other people have more long term needs, possibly due to Alzheimer's, extreme frailty, or a stroke. In these cases, care is necessary on an ongoing basis.
