The monthly Average Cost for a Care Facility in Michigan for a semi-private room is $9,095, according to the 2022 Genworth Study1. Local pricing is even higher, which, excluding substantial initial costs, are $10,500.

The majority of these costs do not go toward personal care. A typical scenario for direct care on a daily basis amounts to a 15-minute visit by a care professional 2 to 4 times per day. The personal one-on-one attention a typical resident will experience in a day is less than one hour. And although we could not find information on wait times between attendant call and when care is received, anecdotal evidence indicates that they are inconvenient. 

This contrasts greatly with what your experience with Anchor will be. You will stay in your own home, so there will be no moving or upfront costs. For the same cost as the monthly fee, you will receive eight hours of one-on-one direct care each day! These eight hours can be broken down any way you want—four hours in the morning and four hours at night or perhaps three hours in the morning getting ready for the day, two hours at noon to prepare, serve and clean up the midday meal, and three hours at night to do the evening and bedtime routine. In these eight-hour visits, we can design your care plan any way you want. Typical care plans include a close personal relationship with a quality care professional, cooking, cleaning, laundry, errands, assistance with exercises, reading, transportation, and much more. Activities are selected from within our seven areas of care (personal, physical, nutritional, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual.)

If your care needs don’t call for that many hours per day, your care managers will design the right amount of care and create a schedule that is perfect for your individual needs. 

In addition to all this, you have the services of an RN to review your care needs for every shift, every day. Her professional oversight of your care results in continual review and update of your plan of care.  

You will experience excellent, one-on-one care from a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) with the oversight of a Registered Nurse in your own home.

Contrast this to what you will experience in a facility. Consider the following excerpt from a NIH (National Institutes of Health) study:

Unfortunately, most nursing homes do not provide sufficient staffing to ensure basic quality. More than half of U.S. nursing homes were found to have lower RN, CNA, and total nurse staffing levels than those recommended by experts and one quarter of nursing homes had dangerously low staffing (below 3.53 total nursing hours) in 2014. Overall, 75% of nursing homes almost never met the CMS expected RN staffing levels based on resident acuity in the 2017 to 2018 period. During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the importance of adequate nursing home staffing has become even more critical in protecting the health and safety of residents.

Post pandemic, the number of care hours per resident has declined—the situation is worse rather than better.

When circumstances prevent you from living at home independently, or when you simply want help, consider Anchor In-Home Care as a high quality, cost-effective alternative to facility living.