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Medicare gives 14 of Kentucky’s nursing homes a five-star rating overall, as of this writing. That’s a bit below the Southeast’s average of 15 percent. Eleven of those 40 top homes are in Kentucky’s two biggest cities, Lexington and Louisville. The good news: Kentucky has some of the cheapest home care in the United States.
Approximate number of facilities:
- Nursing homes: 282
- Assisted living residences: 289*
Types of care available:
- Adult day care
- Home care
- Home health-care
- Continuing-care retirement communities
- Assisted living communities
- Nursing homes
Estimated average prices:**
- Adult day care: $64 per day
- Home care: $17 per hour
- Home health-care: $18 per hour
- Assisted living: $ 3,022 per month
- Nursing home, semi-private room: $188 per day
- Nursing home, private room: $209 per day
State websites for seniors:
Where to report elder abuse:
- In domestic/community care: 1-800-752-6200
- In nursing homes: 1-800-752-6200
Financial assistance (partial list):
Top-10 largest cities:
- Lexington-Fayette
- Louisville
- Owensboro
- Bowling Green
- Covington
- Hopkinsville
- Frankfort
- Henderson
- Richmond
- Jeffersontown
Top nursing homes, based on Medicare ratings:***
Albany
Clinton County Care & Rehabilitation Center
Augusta
Bracken County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Bardstown
Flaget Memorial Hospital Nursing Facility
Berea
The Terrace Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Bowling Green
Magnolia Village Care and Rehabilitation Center
Calhoun
Riverside Manor Health Care Center
Corbin
The Heritage
Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Nursing Facility of Hardin Memorial Hospital
Florence
St. Elizabeth Florence Skilled Nursing Facility
Glasgow
Glasgow State Nursing Facility
T.J. Samson Community Hospital
Greenville
Belle Meade Home
Maple Manor Health Care Center
Hopkinsville
Western State Nursing Facility
Lexington
Cambridge Place
Homestead Nursing Center
Pine Meadows Health Care
Tanbark Health Care Center
Louisville
Essex Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Golden LivingCenter – St. Matthews
Home of the Innocents
Jefferson Manor
Little Sisters of the Poor
Nazareth Home
Treyton Oak Towers
Madisonville
Regional Medical Center of Hopkins County
Marion
Crittenden County Health & Rehabilitation Center
Mayfield
Mills Health & Rehab Center
Morganfield
Breckinridge Place
Nerinx
Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary
New Castle
Homestead Nursing Center, New Castle, Kentucky
Owensboro
Hermitage Care and Rehabilitation Center
Paris
Bourbon Heights Nursing Home
Richmond
Telford Terrace
Saint Catharine
Sansbury Care Center
Salem
Salem Springlake Health & Rehabilitation Center
Shelbyville
Masonic Home of Shelbyville
Somerset
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital-Scu
Taylorsville
Signature Healthcare of Spencer County
*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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