A Plan Designed For the Special Health Care Needs of Long-Term Nursing Home Residents in Renaissance Gardens
If a loved one’s health status changes to the point that continuous long-term care services are required, health care needs often become very different from what they were while still living independently. The Erickson Advantage Guardian Plan was designed through our understanding that those with very frail health may need some additional personal attention and a higher level of coordinated care to help them lead a more comfortable life.
Why choose the Erickson Advantage Guardian Plan?
More healthcare coverage and features than Original Medicare.
The Erickson Advantage Guardian Plan provides more health coverage than Original Medicare at no cost beyond your monthly Medicare health plan payment* and offers Part D prescription drug coverage at an additional Part D premium of $29 per month. Extra benefits and services include:
- Eyeglasses or contact lenses benefit—One pair every two years at up to $100 in value.
- Transportation to medical appointments benefit—Covered with no co-payment for each trip up to 24 oneway trips each year to Plan-approved locations.
- The services of a nurse practitioner, dedicated to being that extra pair of hands and eyes and ears, to help keep your loved one’s health status at as high a level as it can possibly be at this stage of life.
The Erickson Advantage Guardian Plan provides Medicare Part D prescription coverage so prescriptions and health care are covered and coordinated through just one plan.
In addition to your Part B premium, co-pays and coinsurances may apply
Extra Care and Attention for the Resident . . .
Extra Help for Family Members
Your loved one’s team of care providers will include a primary care physician and a nurse practitioner working as a team with the Renaissance Gardens staff. Your loved one will also have the attention of a registered nurse as a care coordinator to help provide a higher level of personal attention to the extra medical services that may need to be arranged, like medical appointments with specialists, to result in better coordinated care. Better still, you know right where to find this team of experts. They are located here on our campus and may be a telephone call or short walk away.
Care Brought Right to the Bedside
Unlike Original Medicare, the Erickson Advantage Guardian Plan can cover many services right in the resident’s own room that might otherwise require the stress and trauma of a trip to the emergency room or a three-or-more day stay in the hospital. If medically appropriate, some tests and treatments such as X-rays, intravenous or intramuscular medications, intravenous fluid therapy and more, may be done right at the bedside. Unlike Original Medicare, the Erickson Advantage Guardian Plan does not require a three-day hospital stay before such skilled services will be covered right in the long-term care setting.†
†Co-pays and coinsurances may apply.
How to Learn More About the Advantages of the Guardian Plan
Please call your Erickson Advantage Representative at 1-800-989-1389, TTY: 711, Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. local time.
You must continue to pay your Medicare Part B premium if not otherwise paid for under Medicaid or by another third party. You must have Medicare Parts A and B and must reside in the service area of the plan.
The Guardian Plan is a special needs plans available to all people meeting certain eligibility requirements, such as living in a contracted nursing home.
For more information on Erickson Advantage, just stop by the office or call 1-800-989-1389, TTY: 711 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. local time. |
