Nursing Services

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Our highly skilled nurses provide the best quality care. Their skills are only half the picture. Each nurse is a gentle and caring person, with genuine concern for each resident.

The following skilled nursing services are available at Elm Crest Manor:

  • Director of Nursing oversees all aspects of healthcare within the facility
  • Individualized resident care plan treatments
  • Dementia care
  • Wound care
  • Enteral feeding program
  • Catheter care
  • Colostomy Care
  • Ileostomy Care
  • Nutrition & hydration programs
  • Medication management & education
  • Diabetic management & education
  • Restorative nursing
  • Pain management
  • Hospice program
  • Bowel & bladder programs
  • Model environment for nurse training
  • In-house, on-going continued learning courses for nursing and CNA’s
  • Transportation services

Alzheimer’s Care

Our nurses work with the resident’s family to create a comfortable environment including simple routines and visual cues as a positive substitute for diminishing mental processes.

Diabetes Management

Our experienced nurses provide help with all aspects of managing diabetes including:

  • Blood glucose monitoring
  • Insulin administration and tracking
  • Menu planning, education and more

Restorative Nursing Program

At Elm Crest Manor we seek to maximize the quality of life for our long-term care population, who require a specialized restorative program.

Our therapy team and nursing staff develop individualized treatment plans for resident care in the areas of:

  • Ambulation
  • Range of motion
  • Activities of daily living
  • Positioning and alignment
  • Skin integrity and wound management
  • Contracture management
  • Bowel and bladder training
  • Rehabilitative and social dining
  • Strengthening and restraint reduction

Dietary Program

Our dietary program is designed to meet the dietary and physician-ordered needs of each resident in our care.

To ensure that each resident is receiving the proper nutritional needs we offer:

  • Meals to meet specific dietary and therapeutic needs, according to physician orders
  • Oral supplements, as prescribed by each physician
  • Regular nutritional assessments from a dietitian