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elleng

(136,840 posts) Sun Dec 24, 2017, 09:46 PM Dec 2017

A Better Kind of Nursing Home [View all]

'Lots of things look different when you step into a small Green House nursing home.

The bright living and dining space, filled with holiday baubles at this season. The adjacent open kitchen, where the staff is making lunch. The private bedrooms and baths. The lack of long stark corridors, medication carts and other reminders of hospital wards.

I was visiting the Green House Homes at Green Hill, a continuing care facility in West Orange, N.J. Dorothy Bagli, who’s 91, showed me her room, looking out onto the garden and filled with artwork from home and photos of her grandchildren. (Her son, it turned out, is a reporter at The Times.)

“I’ve gotten to know most of the people that live here,” she said — an easier task when there are only 10 residents.

“It’s very intimate,” agreed Eleanor Leonardis, who declined to give her age and is recuperating from a nasty fall. “It feels a lot like home.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/health/green-houses-nursing-homes.html?

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A Better Kind of Nursing Home [View all] elleng Dec 2017 OP

Sounds interesting! Thanks for the post, my dear elleng.n/t CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2017 #1

Interesting lordsummerisle Dec 2017 #2

There was a slight mention, elleng Dec 2017 #3

Most of the people in them are on Medicaid, but they cost about the same or somewhat higher pnwmom Dec 2017 #10

$450 per day, according to comments on the article. NT enough Dec 2017 #4

They take the standard Medicaid reimbursement for those who qualify. pnwmom Dec 2017 #14

Yet the GOP is taking that all away. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #5

As these better places, clearly are not for the POOR middle class, what repugs do not relevant. elleng Dec 2017 #6

My dad was treated kindly in his nursing home. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #7

The poor middle class can and do go to Green House nursing homes pnwmom Dec 2017 #12

Glad to see this (I guess.) elleng Dec 2017 #13

I have a relative in one, have visited her there, and she's much happier pnwmom Dec 2017 #15

I'm very pleased to hear about how well they're run. elleng Dec 2017 #16

That caution would apply to anyone in a nursing home, Green House or not. pnwmom Dec 2017 #17

Thanks elleng Dec 2017 #18

Not true. In the typical Green House, about 1/2 to 2/3 are on Medicaid. The full payment pnwmom Dec 2017 #11

I've always had the idea that nursing homes and day cares should be co-located. Better for both... rwsanders Dec 2017 #8

Yes, have seen a few of these. elleng Dec 2017 #9