Skilled Nursing Facility
Sonoma Valley Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Facility is designed to assist patients when they no longer require acute care services but are not quite ready to return to independent living. As they continue their recovery, patients in our Skilled Nursing Unit rehabilitation programs have access to the entire range of hospital services. With the program’s focus on healing and recovery of daily living skills, patients can utilize multiple services to suit their needs.
- Physical and Occupational Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- Disease Management
- Educational and Support Groups
- Wound Care
The 27-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) offers excellent nursing and 24-hour physician availability. Considering that the regular nursing home requirement is for physicians to see patients once a month, this kind of coverage makes SNF special. At SNF, in-house patients can get a CAT scan, an MRI, a lab, an EKG, and receive specialized care such as IV antibiotics and blood transfusions.
SNF Director Melissa Evans RN, voted Nurse of the Year for 2010 by the physicians, credits the success of the SNF to teamwork. Nurses don’t say, ‘I’m going to stick with my assigned patients.’ any of them will jump in and help. And that’s what’s expected here. We are a very close team.”
The SNF generates great loyalty from patients and the recent renovation was accomplished through patient donations. CEO Kelly Mather, above, hands a check to Helen Fernandez, a former patient who spearheaded the campaign. Her story is inspiring.