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Nursing Homes in Port Jefferson

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There is 1 verified nursing homes option listed in Port Jefferson. New York's Department of Health licenses and inspects this care type.

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A skilled nursing facility provides 24-hour licensed nursing, regulated under a separate rule chapter from assisted living: 10 NYCRR Part 415 in New York. Two different populations often live under the same roof: short-term rehab patients and long-term residents.

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We list 1 verified nursing homes option in Port Jefferson.

What to watch for with nursing homes in Port Jefferson

  • Medicare may cover a short rehab stay after a qualifying inpatient hospital admission, but it does not pay for long-term custodial nursing care.

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Verified nursing homes in Port Jefferson

CommunityCare typeAddressCounty
Water's Edge Rehab & Nursing Center at Port JeffersonNursing Home150 Dark Hollow Road
Port Jefferson, OH 11777		Suffolk

Nursing Homes elsewhere in the region

Families in Port Jefferson sometimes place a parent one city over, especially when a specific care level is needed.

CommunityCare typeAddressCounty
Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterNursing Home68 Hauppauge Road
Commack, OH 11725		Suffolk
Island Nursing and Rehab CenterNursing Home5537 Express Drive North
Holtsville, OH 11742		Suffolk
Jefferson's FerryIndependent LivingOne Jefferson Ferry Drive
South Setauket, OH 11720		Suffolk
Peconic LandingIndependent Living1600 Brecknock Road
Greenport, OH 11944		Suffolk
San Simeon by the Sound Center for Nursing and RehabilitationNursing Home61700 Route 48
Greenport, OH 11944		Suffolk
The Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and NursingNursing Home64 County Road 39
Southampton, OH 11968		Suffolk

The Port Jefferson market specifically

Both John T. Mather Memorial Hospital and St. Charles Hospital sit in this North Shore harbor village, an unusual concentration of acute care for a town this size, and the cross-Sound ferry adds a retiree draw not found elsewhere on this list.

Port Jefferson families often compare Smithtown or Mount Sinai, both close by, especially when a specific hospital-system affiliation (Catholic Health vs. Stony Brook Medicine) matters to the family.

Visit twice, at different hours

A scheduled mid-morning tour and an unannounced 7 p.m. drop-in can look like two different buildings. Evening and overnight are when staffing thins and when families are most often surprised.

Eat a meal there. Talk to a resident's family member in the parking lot rather than one the community introduces you to.

You can check any facility's record free. NYS Health Profiles (profiles.health.ny.gov) publishes license status and inspection history free. Read the full explanation →

Questions families ask

My father was just diagnosed with dementia - what should we be planning for on Long Island?

A new dementia diagnosis typically means starting to think about progressively higher levels of support: from in-home caregiving, to a Special Needs Assisted Living Residence (SNALR)-certified memory care community, to eventually possibly a nursing home. The Nassau (516-227-8900) or Suffolk (631-853-8200) County Office for the Aging can connect families to local resources and benefits counseling as needs evolve, and it's worth confirming any Long Island community marketing memory care actually holds SNALR certification via NYS Health Profiles.

I'm exhausted from caring for my spouse or parent - what support exists for caregivers on Long Island?

Both the Nassau County Office for the Aging (516-227-8900) and Suffolk County Office for the Aging (631-853-8200) serve as local NY Connects access points and can help connect exhausted family caregivers to respite options, including adult day health care, at a New York State median of $144 per day, and in-home caregiver support, at a state median of $35 per hour, which can relieve some of the daily burden without requiring a full residential placement.

We're running out of money to pay privately for my parent's care - what are our options?

Once private funds are running low, the relevant path for most Nassau and Suffolk families is long-term-care Medicaid, a separate, asset-tested eligibility pathway from general ACA Medicaid, which can cover nursing home care, Managed Long Term Care (MLTC)-coordinated home care, the Assisted Living Program (ALP), or NHTD waiver services, depending on the level of need. The county Office for the Aging (Nassau: 516-227-8900; Suffolk: 631-853-8200) is a starting point for understanding which of these pathways may apply.

How do we know it's actually time to move my parent out of their home?

There's no single trigger, but common signals include a recent fall or hospitalization, a new or worsening dementia diagnosis, the primary family caregiver reaching burnout, or private funds running low relative to ongoing care costs, any of which typically prompts a first call to the Nassau (516-227-8900) or Suffolk (631-853-8200) County Office for the Aging to understand available options before deciding.

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