Idaho Assisted Living and Senior Care Resource

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:

• Information for seniors
• Information about residential care, or assisted living
• Regulations for residential care or assisted living facilities (PDF download)

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 1-877-471-2777
• In nursing homes: 1-877-471-2777

 

Financial assistance (partial list):

• Medicaid
• SHIBA Health (Senior Health Insurance Benefits Advisors)

 

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.