Starr Regional Health and Rehabilitation sits at 886 Highway 411 N in Etowah, Tennessee, and offers care for seniors needing skilled nursing, memory care, and rehab, and it's been providing long-term and skilled care since 1967, so there's a good bit of experience behind the staff there, and with 88 beds, there are both private and semi-private rooms for the residents, and the Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants, and other healthcare staff help people with daily living, medical needs, and specialized care, and the place has services for people facing Alzheimer's or dementia, as well as help for folks who have both mental health and substance use disorders, including seniors needing special support, and there's help available for addiction recovery, intervention, detox, and rehab for older adults, and programs even include those sensitive to age, orientation, gender identity, and also assistance for those needing adapted communication or sign language.
Residents can get therapies like physical, speech, occupational, activity, group, trauma, couples, family, cognitive behavioral, cognitive remediation, dialectical behavior, experiential, animal-assisted, equine, and even wilderness therapy, so there's plenty of ways to work towards wellness, and the staff provide medication management including medicines like Abilify, Saphris, Latuda, Zyprexa, Seroquel, and others, all supervised as needed, and with care programs built around each person's needs. Starr Regional runs both emergency and inpatient mental health care, provides a COVID-19 quarantine wing, and takes precautions with cleaning and face masks to reduce risks.
The facility has a homelike feel, with activities for social and recreational time, meals and nutrition support, event programming like the Healthy Community Lunch & Learn, and help with all the basic parts of daily life. There's on-site hospital care, including inpatient and outpatient services, emergency room, wound care, infusion therapy, medical imaging, a Breast Center, telehealth, and a new robotics-assisted surgery option that uses advanced technology-so for people who need hospital support or surgery, treatment happens right there onsite when possible, and the site is affiliated with LifePoint Health, which helps connect services with nearby providers like Athens Regional Medical Center and Rhea Medical Center. The nursing home takes Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and cash or self-payment, making payment a bit more flexible, and the whole place is for-profit, focused on medical and day-to-day needs for seniors and folks with complex health situations, whether needing short rehab, recovery after surgery, or longer-term memory and skilled care.
The care team aims for a safe, respectful, and supportive environment, and the 88-bed skilled nursing facility stands separate from broader hospital services, so rehab, therapy, memory support, and general healthcare go hand-in-hand for the people who live there.
