Oakdale Care Center holds three designations at one Poplar Bluff address: skilled nursing, residential care, and assisted living. A resident whose needs increase does not have to change buildings for each step.
Bathing is the usual reason a family starts asking about assisted living. It becomes the thing a whole morning gets planned around, and assisted living hands it to staff, with dressing and medications.
Skilled nursing means nothing about a Tuesday at midnight changes who is on the floor. Nursing time holds at 2 hours and 32 minutes per resident per day; an average drawn across 166 beds. Advanced therapy and rehabilitation services are available where therapy is part of a resident’s care.
Three payment routes work here: Medicare, Medicaid, and private funds. Walk score for the area is 67, which puts it in the somewhat walkable range. Such a number means more to a residential care resident who still goes out alone than to anyone in the nursing wing. Misty Ulmer administers the center for Palladian Senior Care of Poplar Bluff.
