Post-acute Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Care located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Highly regarded as a caring skilled nursing residence in Elizabethtown, Helmwood received the News-Examiner 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Nursing Home in Hardin County. In a home-like atmosphere, our interdisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, aides, and skilled staff members work together to provide compassionate long-term care for those with skilled and intermediate medical needs. In line with our resident-centered philosophy of care, we offer a nurturing life-affirming community with a beautiful campus, caring staff, delicious meals, and imaginative activities designed to nurture the whole person—body, mind, and spirit.
Our residence features round-the-clock care with our nurses available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Registered nurses supervise the dispensing of medication and dedicated aides assist our residents with activities of daily living. Therapists are available to provide individualized short-term rehabilitation services if needed, always with the goal of restoring our residents to their highest level of independence and function.
We also serve those who are recovering from a medical condition or procedure and require short-term rehabilitation therapy before returning home. Our nurses and therapists work with the referring physician to ensure the fastest recovery with the best functional outcome.
