Grove Nursing Center

Green Country Care Center is centered around providing the best care for individual needs. Our community is designed to provide excellent, personalized care while maintaining the highest standards for patient safety. Our facilities are set up to be comfortable, with secure entrances and exits. We aim to create an environment that encourages interaction and independence, overseen by our caring and specialized staff members.

Skilled Nursing is a recovery solution for individuals who are not doing well enough to go home after hospitalization. It is also a solution for families who have a loved one that needs more time to heal after surgery or hospitalization but no one to provide needed support in their home.

The goal is to use nursing, physician support and therapy to improve the patien'ts ability to function independently so he or she can go back to thriving at home.As a general example, a knee or hip surgery patient is generally seen by Physical and Occupational Therapy 5 to 7 days a week. Treatment times average 50 minutes per discipline based on the resident's tolerance level and physician need.

In addition to 24-hour nursing, Long Term Care patients at Green Country Care Center also have access to therapy and rehabilitiation services, physician care, pharmacy and dietary consultation. Families may use long term care insurance and private pay resources for many of the same services a skilled nursing patient may use when recovery seems limited or extended and hospitalization / insured benefits have been exhausted.

Following is a glossary of terms which may be helpful in your search for the right type of senior care. Physical functions that an individual performs each day, including bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, walking or wheeling, and transferring into and out of bed. A written statement of an individual's preferences and directions regarding health care.

This is any and all income; including SSI and private pensions, in addition to CD's, stocks, bonds, trust funds, life insurance policies, and burial policies that are revocable. Income over $2130.00 has to be placed in a Medicaid income trust the day before needing assistance. When applying for Medicaid, (DHS), you have 45 days to complete the packet of information you will receive from them but only 10 days to respond to their initial letter.