What is Nursing Home Care?
Nursing Home Care is for clients who are chronically ill or disabled. These clients have a chronic illness or disability and need long-term care.
Nursing home care is divided into two sections:
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Psychogeriatric care: for clients who need care due to an illness of the brain, like, for example, Alzheimer’s disease.
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Somatic care: for clients who need care due to a physical illness or disability, like, for example, after stroke or amputation. To be eligible for admittance, clients need to have an ADL (Activities of Daily Living) score of 5 or lower.
Admission criteria
Required documents:
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Copy of valid health insurance
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Copy of SXM ID card /passport
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A score of 5 or lower for the Activities of Daily Living (assessed by us)
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A detailed census registration form (no older than 6 months)
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Letter from a psychiatrist confirming
a psycho-geriatric illness (if applicable)
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Medical history from the family doctor / medical specialist
These documents can be emailed to: socialworker@wyccf.org
Follow up
Once all documents are submitted, the client will be placed on the waiting list.
The social worker and department manager will then conduct a home visit, where the client’s needs are assessed. An AVBZ-care request is then filled in and submitted to the AVBZ Committee at SZV for approval.
Once approved and when a space becomes available for the client, the family will be called and an admission date is planned.
Contact
Minerva Maccow
Social Worker - Nursing Home Care
Cell: 588 1460
Macfolda Gumbs
Department Manager
St. Martin's Home
Tel: 548 4431
Address: St. John's Road #6
Cul-de-sac, Sint Maarten
