Primary diagnosis-bypass surgery+complications. Schizoaffective-controlled by meds. Very ALIVE. Makes friends-love friends. Please only respond after you have reviewed the website- called Catholic Eldercare-skillied nursing facility. Need comparable site.
Respectfully,
Lisa
However -- I truly do not mean to be unkind, Lisa, and I am very new to this site myself -- but I don't have any idea whether you would consider these facilities "comparable" to theCatholic Eldercare Minnesota. AND I don't think (m)any respondents would do the research you virtually demanded in your question. Only YOU can tell whether a particular facility is comparable to the one you obviously like in Minnesota. In addition to services available, the location of the facility and of other family members (there really needs to be a family member in the same city as the NH who will be "boots on the ground"!!! ), things like costs and length of stay and urgency of need to enter, etc. are all going to enter into what you think is suitable. Finding a place for Mom is a big responsibility and will take quite a bit of time. What folks here can and will do, I think, is to suggest factors by which you can narrow your search or give you other general suggestions. This is real work; and I hope you will ask ask others in your family (not just siblings) to help you search on line. Or perhaps some of your friends at church or some of your mother's friends who are comfortable on line can do the preliminary research for you and come up with a specific list of places for you to research further. Rather than say "look at this and find something comparable", it would be most helpful the people you find to assist you if you listed the features you thought were critical and those you thought were "nice to have" in a facility as well as how much your mother will have available to spend. Actually, you'll need to arrive at such a list even if you do this all on your own. So look as many places on line as you can see what about each one strikes you as "must haves" (private room?) or what you think Mom could do without (indoor pool?) Good luck and God go with you on your journey.
I do know that in MA (obviously far away) there are Catholic Eldercare Facilities. There must be some in CA. What about the parish which she attends? Is there a Catholic Chaplain at the hospital where she had her surgery?
p.s. Why are you 'annoyed'? :)
There's a website called Catholic Answers. Perhaps someone on that site would know where there are Catholic Eldercare facilities.
catholic
I got this from Googling Catholic Nursing Homes......
google/search?q=Catholic+Nursing+Home+facilities+in+CA&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&gws_rd=ssl
Once again, it was based on the search words CATHOLIC NURSING HOME FACILITIES IN CA
You have quite a bit of research to do and lots of calls to make. Good Luck and prayers.