Our Services
In partnership with quality nursing facilities, our physicians and nurse practitioners provide quality care for residents and their families, and benefits community physicians and area hospitals.
For the Resident and Family
The nurse practitioner adds an additional resource for improved patient care. For example, patients coming from a hospital stay are used to seeing their physician every day. Once the patient is stabilized and transfers to a skilled nursing center, physician visits will be less often. Our nurse practitioner are on site and dedicated to the patients in our facility. The nurse practitioner is involved in the patient care plan and helps continue the communication between physician, patient, center staff and family. Patients and families find reassurance in having constant interactions with this professional resource.
The nurse practitioner's medical expertise allows for quicker and more comprehensive diagnosis and treatment than in a skilled center without this service. This higher medical skill set increases the center's ability to accept and effectively treat patients with complex medical needs as well as reduce hospital readmissions. This creates a continuity of care that meets the needs of the patient, physician, payor source and family.
For the Physician
At HCR Manor Care, our goal is to become a valuable resource to our referring physicians. Our goal is to effectively treat medically complex patients in a cost effective manner. Our nurse practitioner program offers the next level of expertise needed to care for these patients in a skilled nursing center by addressing changes in a patient's condition and astutely communicating with the referring physician.
The nurse practitioner helps our center successfully manage complex cases by reducing hospital lengths of stays, reducing readmits to the hospital and avoiding unnecessary physician visits to the facility. With the nurse practitioner in place, many physicians find their facility visits to be more effective and functional.
