This page is dedicated to help you to understand what facilities like ours can and can not do as well as give you an overview of other places. Let's start with the obvious one, a place like ours.Officially we are licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services as a "Residential Facilities for Groups" . But if you like to search for it on their website you need to look for (AGC) Adult Group Care (Residential Facilities for Groups). Here is the link that will list all and every facility http://dhhs.nv.gov/Health/hcqc/healthfacilitiesquery/FacilitiesSearch.aspx You may come across "Assisted Living Facilities", they are included in this category and are, what I call, the big facilities. Residential facilities are licensed for up to 10 residents and this is determined by the number of bedrooms and square feet of living space. Big facilities, you guessed it right, have 11 or more residents. To top it off, there are Homes for Individual Residential Care (HIRC), not included here and can only have 2 residents. Well, I think you agree with me that this is all quite confusing and since none of it really fit's the bill, people come up with their own names, like Group Homes, Group Care Homes, Senior Group Home, Elder Care, Residential Elder Care and so on. I personally would prefer Residential Senior Care Home. Point is, when you Google any of it, you may or may not find what you are looking for. Anyway, with above link you have the most up to date list of all facilities. But will it help you to find the "right" facility? Well not really, but it gives you an idea of locations and such. And contrary to popular believe location in this case is not everything. More important is the quality of care and not so much where it is. Still leaves you with the unknown about quality of service. Once again, a visit is the best way to get an idea about this.
Let's look at what can a residential facility like us do? Well, in a nutshell providing a living space and any service, for example meals, dressing, bathing, activities, help with medications to assure the well being of our seniors. What we can not do is anything that requires a medical professional, for example giving injections or the handling of IV-bags and such. Our job is to "keep an eye" on our elderly and report any change of condition to family and/or primary care physician. This works rather well as long as your staff is well trained and even better if "the boss" has a BS degree in Nursing. I mentioned before "quality of care" and here is one important difference between facilities and it might be worthwhile the extra mile to find a place with high standards and level of expertise.
Let's look at what can a residential facility like us do? Well, in a nutshell providing a living space and any service, for example meals, dressing, bathing, activities, help with medications to assure the well being of our seniors. What we can not do is anything that requires a medical professional, for example giving injections or the handling of IV-bags and such. Our job is to "keep an eye" on our elderly and report any change of condition to family and/or primary care physician. This works rather well as long as your staff is well trained and even better if "the boss" has a BS degree in Nursing. I mentioned before "quality of care" and here is one important difference between facilities and it might be worthwhile the extra mile to find a place with high standards and level of expertise.
