Pelican Lake Health Care Ctr

Pelican Lake Health Care Center in Ashby, Minnesota, offers different types of elder care including long-term care, assisted living, skilled nursing, memory care, and independent living, and people can find help with daily needs like bathing, dressing, medication management, and meals, plus there's nursing staff around all day and night if emergencies happen because folks living there might have all sorts of medical and mobility needs, including incontinence and diabetes care, with full-service medication help, so if someone has Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia there are high tech wander guards in place and special staff training on wandering and aggression, and the common spaces inside let people gather and chat or take part in activities, some devotional or social, some just for moving around, and rooms can be set up to meet different healthcare needs or preferences, plus there are pet-friendly options, transportation help, parking, and accessibility for wheelchairs, and the facility brings in a visiting podiatrist, offers nutritious meals using quality ingredients, and handles housekeeping to ease the daily load, so seniors can join in on on-site and offsite activities, eat together or have guest meals, and join in devotional services if they want, and some folks come for respite care too, especially if a family caregiver needs a break, while veterans and folks with Social Security, private pay, private insurance, or veteran's benefits can pay for care, and there's a fee structure for the different services including community, respite, buy-in, and different levels of care, and for those in need of caregiver help or new to this field, the center provides Medicaid training, senior home care instruction, and dementia and assisted living training, and the healthcare center, licensed for Medicare and Medicaid, offers its nursing home services in several counties like Anoka, Becker, and Beltrami, operating nursing homes such as Anoka Care Center, Emmanuel Nursing Home, Havenwood Care Center, plus specialized places like Jourdain/Perpich Extended Care Facility and North Country Nursing & Rehab Center, and when it comes to cost, the average daily rate for nursing home care is about $130, or $47,479 a year, with assisted living averaging $2,090 monthly, and home health care runs about $24 an hour, and transportation services run within Minnesota counties carrying both people and all sorts of general freight, but never hazardous materials or anything like that, and with a long history, the Foundation For Rural Health Care runs this place under the name Pelican Lake Health Care Center, with its physical and mailing address at 305 Melby Ave, and staff focus on seniors' independence and dignity in a community where folks can live with less worry and enjoy their days.