Long-Stay Residents with More Medically-Complex Conditions

Average Period of Stay: 385 days

Patients with limitations of ADL 3+: 75%
(such activities as dressing, toileting, bathing and other low-intensity services)

Male: 31%
Female: 69%

Professional nursing facilities provide care for long-term care patients that have such chronic conditions as disabilities, cognitive impairments or other ailments. Many long-term patients are accepted from community because their health has worsened to such an extent when health care facility is a safer and better alternative to home and nursing care is necessary to be provided around-the-clock. Long-term patients in general require greater help with activities of daily life, besides therapy and nursing services, such as occupational therapy, medication management and behavioral health services.

It is important to note that the average length of stay of the resident population is on a decline, with the average length of stay among all patients now less than 100 days.
Primary Payer – Medicaid