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Idaho’s home care and home health-care prices are some of the lowest in the Northwest. But the state also has the lowest percentage in the region of nursing homes rated five stars overall by Medicare: 16 percent, as of this writing. (The national average is 18 percent.)
Approximate number of facilities:
- Nursing homes: 79
- Assisted living residences: 278*
Types of care available:
- Adult day care
- Home care
- Home health-care
- Continuing-care retirement communities
- Assisted living facilities (including residential care facilities)
- Certified family homes
- Nursing homes
Estimated average prices:**
- Adult day care: $92 per day
- Home care: $18 per hour
- Home health-care: $19 per hour
- Assisted living: $ 3,061 per month
- Nursing home, semi-private room: $200 per day
- Nursing home, private room: $214 per day
State websites for seniors:
Where to report elder abuse:
- In domestic/community care: 1-877-471-2777
- In nursing homes: 1-877-471-2777
Financial assistance (partial list):
Top-10 largest cities:
- Boise
- Nampa
- Pocatello
- Idaho Falls
- Meridian
- Coeur d'Alene
- Twin Falls
- Lewiston
- Caldwell
- Moscow
Top nursing homes, based on Medicare ratings:***
Ammon Promontory Point Rehabilitation
Ashton Ashton Living Center
Boise Idaho Elks Rehab Hospital and Subacute Rehab Unit Idaho State Veterans Home – Boise Life Care Center of Treasure Valley Life Care Center of Valley View
Emmett Cherry Ridge at Emmett Care and Rehabilitation Center
Hailey Blaine Manor
Homedale Owyhee Health & Rehabilitation Center
Idaho Falls Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center – Transitional Care Unit Life Care Center of Idaho Falls
Kellogg Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation – Mountain Valley
Lewiston St Joseph Transitional Care Unit
*Assisted-living residence numbers are from the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2007 Residential Care and Assisted Living Compendium. According to the National Center for Assisted Living, this is the industry’s only resource for such data. Depending on the state, the number may or may not include small residential-care homes, such as adult foster care.
**Senior-care price estimates are based on the 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs, which reports average rates,and the Genworth 2011 Cost of Care Survey, which reports median rates.
***Medicare rates nursing homes in four categories using a five-star system. These are the nursing homes with five stars in the “Overall” category. The ratings were accessed on Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare site in November or December 2011 and are subject to change. The Medicare ratings system isn’t perfect, so use additional criteria to evaluate nursing homes as well.
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