Do memory care facilities hold a bed if a patient there breaks a bone and has to stay at rehab?

If you keep paying the rent, they'll usually hold the bed. Most places will give a discount while the person isn't there, because they aren't using the food service or needing care, so it should be a lower rent. Folks are in and out of hospitals and rehab all the time.

However, most places will have a limit on how long they'll hond a room. If someone's in rehab for months or their return looks iffy, they may say no after a certain time.

Every MC facility is a business unto itself. Often you are given the rules and regulations upon the person going in, a contract; read that if you have it. Otherwise call your facility and ask. There is no way we could know the answer to that facility and there are no rules that are universal dictating what a private business does about this circumstance. Sure do wish you the best of luck in this.

Ask the facility.

When my husband was in rehab for one month, I paid for his room at his memory care. His memory care did not charge me for his care during his rehab stay; however, they did charge me for his room. Memory care lodging costs are similar to hotel stays or apartment rentals. In those situations, you continue to pay for the room or suite even when you go on vacation for a month or two months.

I doubt that Medicare would be paying for a bed in MC at all. Is she self pay or on Medicaid? If Medicaid, I'm sorry I don't know the rules. I guess there are rules about how many days the gov't funds would pay for. How long will she be in rehab? Maybe hubby should call MC and find out the scoop. I bet they know or could find out. Good luck.

My dad's bed was given away when he got sent to the hospital without anyone notifying us or him. He wasn't in memory care but long term nursing and the place was also a rehab. It was so stressful.

That is a facility specific question.
Confer with the administration in the facility.

Medicare does not pay for Memory care, Assisted Living or Long-term care, only Rehab. So Medicare has nothing to do with her Memory Care bed only her Rehab. Memory care is private pay, rarely does Medicaid pay for it unless u have lived there for maybe a period of at least 2 yrs.

Just read the Memory Care contract and the Long-term care contract. I agree that as long as she is paying for her MC room, it will be held. That does not mean the LTC contract will. They may require she needs to be living there or only so many days that they will pay without her living there.

Who pays for her care has nothing to do with this. Medicare never pays for a bed outside of Rehab and thats only for 20 days and after that 50% up to 100 days. Medicaid would not be involved because they rarely pay for ALs or MC unless have paid privately for a period of time like 2 yrs. Few have AL vouchers.

Read the MC contract. For my Mom she paid her room and board and care for two weeks when she was in Rehab. After that, the care part of her monthly cost was dropped. How long they would have held her room I have no idea. She was released from Rehab after 18 days.

If Long-term care insurance is paying for her MC, you need to find out how long they will cover her if she is not living at the MC for a period of time.

We had to pay for the MC bed to hold it, for the month Dad was in rehab. Medicare paid for rehab.