Skilled Nursing
Around the Clock Care for Complex Health Needs
As a provider of exceptional skilled nursing and rehabilitative care services, we are dedicated to building productive relationships among residents, patients, family members, and staff. We are focused on allowing each of our residents to experience dignity, independence, and self-determination. From memory and long-term care to rehabilitative help to get patients back on their feet, we are here to provide skillful, approachable care to all.
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Our Skilled Nursing Locations
Our Services
- Abscess care – incision and drainage of abscess, hematoma, cyst, or paronychia
- Biopsies – skin lesions or rashes for diagnosis
- Cauterization – silver nitrate treatment for hypergranulation, pyogenic granuloma, angioma, and more
- Cryotherapy – wart, actinic keratosis, and irritated seborrheic keratosis treatments
- Drain removal – surgical drain removal, including Penrose, JP, and more
- Laceration repair – acute laceration repair and post-laceration care, including suture or staple removal, as well as treatment recommendations
- Lesion excision – skin lesion, skin tag, wart, cyst, and keratoses excisions
- Skin tear – evaluation, debridement, and treatment recommendations
- Wound care – sharp debridement, wound vac treatments, and recommendations for chronic, stagnant, and newly acquired wounds
We bring safe, quality care to patients. Our team takes the highest safety measures possible to ensure the health and safety of patients of the staff.
Frequently Asked Questions
The caring staff in a skilled nursing facility perform a wide and varied range of duties while providing comfort and care to patients who require medical services. Patients are regularly evaluated and given individualized care plans, which may include nursing duties and rehabilitative care, as necessary.
Skilled nursing and therapy professionals include:
- Audiologists
- Licensed practical nurses (LPNs)
- Mid-level providers
- Physical and occupational therapists
- Registered nurses (RNs)
- Speech-language pathologists
Skilled nursing is provided by trained nurses in a medical setting, under the supervision of a doctor. Skilled nursing facilities provide patients with transitional care, focusing on helping patients get well enough to go home.
Many patients go from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility to continue their recovery from illness, injury, and/or surgery. Skilled nursing facilities provide hospital-level care as well as rehabilitative services like occupational, physical, and speech therapies.
Custodial care involves helping you with activities of daily living–like getting into and out of bed, bathing, dressing, eating, and using the restroom. It may also include helping residents with their oxygen, taking care of catheters or colostomy bags, or using eye drops. Custodial care is often given in a skilled nursing facility.
Skilled nursing is health care that requires skilled nursing staff (including therapists) to evaluate, manage, observe, and treat residents.
Both custodial care and skilled nursing care are provided in our skilled nursing facilities.
Here at Rochester Regional Health, there is no difference! All of our skilled nursing facilities also offer rehabilitation facilities and care to our residents.
The goals of skilled nursing are to help individuals manage their health needs, improve their condition, and function more independently. It’s a great way to help individuals slow any declines in their condition and allows them and their loved ones to participate in health goal planning.
Skilled nursing facilities offer a variety of amenities to best meet the needs of residents. From outings and fitness classes to open floor plans and much more, find the right skilled nursing facility for your loved one.
Bringing Comfortable Care to You
Providing patients at our long-term care facilities with exceptional wound care prevention and treatment, our Mobile Surgical Services team works together to improve access to personalized, on-site care for residents across Rochester, the Finger Lakes, and Western New York. We bring quality wound care to our patients as often as needed, in the comfort of their own space without the worry or cost of arranging transportation to an office.