Meadowbrook Healthcare
Meadowbrook Healthcare
154 Prospect Avenue
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
(518) 563-5440
Meadowbrook Healthcare, a 200 bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, is located in Plattsburgh, New York, a beautiful community on Lake Champlain in northeastern New York. The multi-story facility, situated in a quiet and secure residential neighborhood, is enhanced by beautiful landscaping, outdoor patio areas, and wonderful views of Lake Champlain, Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains. Our beautiful and newly renovated facility offers all the amenities of home. Attractively decorated private and semi-private rooms are available with spacious dining and recreational areas.
Meadowbrook has been recognized as the North Country's "facility of choice" for short term and long term care services since 1974. Our team of professionally trained staff is committed to providing the highest quality of care and services to our community. Located adjacent to the area's premier hospital (CVPH), Meadowbrook Healthcare is an integral component in the area's healthcare continuum. Whether you need 24 hour-a-day nursing care on a long term basis or a Medicare Subacute rehabilitation stay, our licensed nursing personnel and trained staff are available to care for you. Our interdisciplinary team consists of members from nursing, social work, activities, physical and occupational therapy and dietary to coordinate your individualized care plan. We also view the resident's family as a welcome and vital part of the care team.
Meadowbrook Healthcare accepts both Medicaid and Medicare residents and is licensed by the New York Department of Human Services. Membership is also maintained in the American Health Care Association and New York State Health Facilities Association.
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
Choosing to admit a loved one into a health care facility can be an emotional time for both patients and families. At Meadowbrook Healthcare, our caring professionals understand these concerns and have been committed to providing the highest quality care, comfort and dignity to our residents for over 30 years.
Our philosophy encompasses caring for the whole person by providing an environment that contributes to the resident's well being and the family's peace of mind. Our highly trained Nurses and Certified Nursing Assistants provide 24-hour care and monitoring for your loved one. Our programs are delivered by professionals in the fields of gerontology, nursing and administration and are designed to meet your loved one's individual needs. Along with our standard amenities, residents and patients benefit from an enhanced staff-to-patient-ratio, comprehensive therapy programs, clean, restraint-free environments, and Dietician-directed nutrition plans.
Our complex medical care includes the following:
- Wound Care
- IV Access Care
- Pain Management
- Diabetes Care
- Nutritional Counseling
- Oxygen Therapy
- Dementia Care
SUBACUTE AND REHABILITATION
Meadowbrook Healthcare's Subacute Program …. The Bridge Between Hospital & Home. The concept of Subacute Rehabilitation has developed at a time when Americans are living longer, healthier lives, reducing the need for continuous nursing care after an illness or injury. Our program offers a diversity of medical, rehabilitative, and therapeutic services at a level of care between acute care and traditional nursing care. Provided immediately after a hospital stay, it is delivered on an in-patient basis and is designed for individuals who require additional care prior to returning home.
Meadowbrook Healthcare's Subacute Program has been designated specifically for short-term stays and feature an all-nurse staff working in concert with a Dietician, Medical Directors, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and other specialists trained in all aspects of physical, emotional and medical rehabilitation. Our individually tailored therapy and nutrition regimens focus on maximizing a patient's ability to lead an independent life. Our social workers and case managers work with the patient and family to ensure a safe and appropriate discharge back into the community.
Our state-of-the-art rehabilitative programs include the following:
REHABILITATION
PHYSICAL THERAPY:
Physical Therapy services consist of a variety of treatments intended to increase strength and mobility, and decrease pain and discomfort. Upon a written physicians orders, an evaluation, and treatment if appropriate, therapy needs are continually monitored and modified to provide optimum care to assist the resident in achieving his/her maximum rehabilitation potential.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY:
Through Occupational Therapy, the resident and care givers learn which adaptive devices and aids will assist with self-care tasks and help them become easier to perform; such as transferring and positioning techniques that improve safety and reduce pain and ways to identify, reinforce and maintain self-sufficiency.
SPEECH THERAPY:
Speech Therapy services are provided by a licensed, certified Speech-Language Pathologist and prescribed by the attending physicians. All treatments are designed to help the resident improve and/or maintain communicative effectiveness and swallowing ability.
RESTORATIVE NURSING:
Restorative Nursing is the provision of services whereby each resident is provided the ability to increase functional levels of activities of daily living and to prevent complications associated with inactivity. Restorative Nursing includes: promoting proper body alignment, pressure sore prevention, range of motion exercises, use of self-help devices, promoting independence of activities of daily living, bowel and bladder retraining programs, and re-motivational activities.
