Poet's Seat Health Care Center

It's not just about the care... it's all about the caring.

We offer medical, social and rehabilitative services in a caring, family- & community-oriented skilled nursing facility...

SKILLED CARE

What We Offer

Specialized long & short term skilled nursing care to encourage each resident's maximum level of functioning
Compassionate and understanding respite care
Physical and occupational therapy
Speech and language pathology
Breathe Easy Inpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation program
A carefully maintained and tastefully appointed 63-bed, privately owned facility
Joint Commission accredited as an high-quality care provider
Medicare and Medicaid certified
Medicare Advantage plans accepted
Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Health New England (HNE) plans accepted
New England Geriatrics psychiatric services
Social services
Discharge planning
Daily recreational and therapeutic activities
Registered dietician services
Meal choice program
Meals served in an attractive dining room

Respite Care

Poet's Seat Health Care Center is proud of its compassionate and highly skilled Respite Care Program.

We will work with you and your physician in order to obtain a:

Diagnoses
List of medications and treatments
Diet and list of any restrictions
Short term goal
An estimated length of stay, and
A potential discharge date.

For residents who would need or benefit from a three (3) to thirty (30) day stay, we are here for you. Our goal is to offer our home to you, the caregivers, families, and friends. This program is carefully designed for those individuals who need continuous support and nursing care.

Please contact us to discuss this unique opportunity with our Admissions Director or Director of Nursing

Rehabilitation Therapy

Poet's Seat Health Care Center provides rehabilitation services for both short-term and long-term residents. Our rehabilitation therapists provide each resident with the highest quality of therapy. We offer individualized occupational, physical and speech/swallow therapy 5 days a week.

We treat residents with various diagnoses including:

Orthopedic-total hip replacements, total knee replacements
Neurologic-Parkinson's, strokes, multiple sclerosis
Cardiac-coronary artery bypass surgery, coronary artery disease
Respiratory-pneumonia, CHF, COPD

Our emphasis for short-term residents is to maximize their safety and independence in order to be discharged home. Our long-term care goal is to achieve the resident's highest level of independence and to train members of the team for continuity of care.

Our therapy program includes:

Community re-entry and home assessments
Family and caregiver education
Developing self care skills
Gait, transfer, bed mobility and wheelchair mobility training
Strengthening, range of motion, and balance activities
Cognitive retraining
Wound management
Orthotic and prosthetic fitting and training
Seating and positioning
Speech/language therapy and use of communication aides
Swallow retraining
Utilizing adaptive equipment
Modalities to treat pain, edema, wounds and contractures
Sensory re-education

Our rehabilitation staff is an integral part of our team along which also includes the resident, family, social worker, nurses, doctors and activities staff to ensure the best quality care is provided. Together, we are able to achieve the residents' potentials and strive to discharge them to the safest environment possible.

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