Hospice and palliative care run alongside one another at Ghent Rehabilitation & Nursing Center, with its nursing home and skilled nursing work in Ghent, NY. Palliative care manages pain and symptoms during treatment, and hospice care takes over once comfort at the end of life becomes the goal and priority.
A licensed nurse works every hour, so a call bell for aid in the middle of the night reaches the building rather than an outside phone line. Rehabilitation is handled here too. Someone who spent weeks in a hospital bed comes out with legs that no longer work the way they used to.
The center holds 120 beds, and one resident’s care draws 4 hours and 16 minutes of nursing a day. That is an average spread across everyone.
GRNC operating runs the place. Medicare, Medicaid, and private funds are all accepted here. The fit looks best for two types of people: someone rebuilding after a medical event, and someone needing comfort through a serious illness.
