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Hi I'm new to the board and you have all been so insightful and helpful. Would like to know if anyone has any experience on any of the nursing homes on long island. It can be either Nassau or Suffolk county. thank you so much.
I don't know who the nursing home would be for (i.e., mother, father, grandmother, cousin, brother or sister, et al) and what their condition is (e.g., simple old age or elder infirmity, Alzheimers or dementia, having a neuromuscular condition or disability but otherwise of sane mind) and then who will pay for the nursing care (i.e., yourself, using the other person's remaining funds, Medicare, Social Secueity Disability, et al). With all that being said:
My mother put her younger cousin who had multiple sclerosis (who, after a while, the cousin got progressively worse to the point that she went blind, couldn't walk or manage herself, couldn't feed herself or go to the bathroom herself, et al) in the Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (68 Hauppauge Road, Commack, NY, 631-715-2000, www.gurwin.org). From what I think I know, the person living in the nursing home doesn't have to be Jewish. My mother (now deceased) had said it is one of the finer nursing homes around by her own estimation and by what many others had said. She previousy had her cousin in another nursing home in Queens that she said was ill-managed in various ways and pleaded to get her cousin admitted into Gurwin and eventually they let her cousin in. She was in Gurwin for years (maybe two decades or more?) and then eventually died there. It is located alongside a YM-YMHA complex and slightly down the road from the Commack Public Library on the corner of Commack Road and Hauppauge Road. I used to go visit them sometimes and it impressed me as a nice, clean, kempt, and well-managed institution.
I don't know who the nursing home would be for (i.e., mother, father, grandmother, cousin, brother or sister, et al) and what their condition is (e.g., simple old age or elder infirmity, Alzheimers or dementia, having a neuromuscular condition or disability but otherwise of sane mind) and then who will pay for the nursing care (i.e., yourself, using the other person's remaining funds, Medicare, Social Secueity Disability, et al). With all that being said:
My mother put her younger cousin who had multiple sclerosis (who, after a while, the cousin got progressively worse to the point that she went blind, couldn't walk or manage herself, couldn't feed herself or go to the bathroom herself, et al) in the Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center (68 Hauppauge Road, Commack, NY, 631-715-2000, Jewish Nursing Homes, Long Term & Short Term Nursing Care in Commack New York | Gurwin). From what I think I know, the person living in the nursing home doesn't have to be Jewish. My mother (now deceased) had said it is one of the finer nursing homes around by her own estimation and by what many others had said. She previousy had her cousin in another nursing home in Queens that she said was ill-managed in various ways and pleaded to get her cousin admitted into Gurwin and eventually they let her cousin in. She was in Gurwin for years (maybe two decades or more?) and then eventually died there. It is located alongside a YM-YMHA complex and slightly down the road from the Commack Public Library on the corner of Commack Road and Hauppauge Road. I used to go visit them sometimes and it impressed me as a nice, clean, kempt, and well-managed institution.
Gurwin is indeed a very good nursing home and no, one does not have to be Jewish to get in.
However, it is very expensive (if money is an issue).
Gurwin is indeed a very good nursing home and no, one does not have to be Jewish to get in.
However, it is very expensive (if money is an issue).
Yes, it is . . . according to what my mother had said. But then, what nursing home isn't? Are there "bargain" nursing homes? I don't know. She was in a host of previous institutions around New York State and, the last one in Queens, my mother said it was truly deplorable and my mother worked hard and relentlessly to get her into Gurwin.
If I recall the details accurately (which I may or may not), my mother found that either Social Security or the state or whomever would cover the expenses for her cousin after all the cousin's own funds ran out -- being that she wasn't in the nursing home for old age but was wholly disabled and debilitated with multiple sclerosis (not being able to function to any degree after a time without literally everything being done for her).
How disabled? Eventually over time, her multiple sclerosis got worse and worse and made her body wholly contorted (she spent most of her time in the nursing home curled up in bed and entangled like a pretzel . . . though occasionally, they would get her into a special wheelchair and take her outdoors into the yard areas in the back or out on a terrace). She became blind and couldn't use her mouth to speak. She couldn't do anything for herself (being fed through a tube, et al). I guess the government decided that someone like her, in her life situation (whose medical expenses had eventually used up all her resource and assets), was truly meriting of being wholly subsidized to be cared for in a quality nursing home. (Yet, for all I remember, maybe Jewish Philanthropies paid part of the cost for her and the government paid the rest.)
This cousin of my mother was trained to be a registered nurse (RN) and was once a very lively and active person and she came down with this degenerative disease which took her life and her basic functionality away. She eventually died at age 66 but truly looked like 106 or 116 or even older.
Belair nursing home and re-hab in Bellmore. My mom was there for 1 month for re-hab when she broker her leg. She loved it there. It is also a nursing home.Belair Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
My grandmother is set on going to Peconic Landing when the time comes. Her mother was in there and loved it, RIP.
I believe costs are about $10k/mo.
Amazing how much is charged to partake of such a facility (e.g., $10K/month). What do they think? That we're all super-wealthy like Donald Trump or Leona Helmsley or Warren Buffett or Bill Gates?
I wonder if nursing homes in the European Community nations are likewise enormously expensive like they are in the USA or not (with their longstanding so-called "universal healthcare" / "socialized medicine" systems).
Medicare pays if one doesn't have the money. Don't want your money going to the nursing home? Estate planning. Get your assets to others long before the look back period.
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