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Skilled Nursing

Edgewood’s Skilled Nursing Program focuses on treatment plans for residents with diabetes, cancer, post-surgical complications, gastro-intestinal problems, cardiac or respiratory disease, wounds, chronic renal failure and vascular disorders.

Our goal is to help residents regain their strength, recover as fully as possible, and assist with a speedy return home.

Individualized Care

  • Coordination of treatment with primary care physicians
  • On-site specialists in dentistry, podiatry, optometry, dermatology and audiology
  • Individualized treatment plans designed around personalized goals
  • 24 hour skilled nursing and a certified wound, ostomy and continence nurse on staff
  • Physical, occupational and speech therapies seven days a week in our rehab gym
  • Respiratory care practitioner on staff full-time
  • Complex dressings, wound VAC, wound therapy and pressure relieving mattresses
  • Therapeutic diets, diabetes management and tube feeding
  • Pain management and oncology care
  • Ostomy, urostomy and foley catheter management
  • IV therapy 
  • Education, exercise and relaxation training
  • Wellness treatments such as Reiki 
  • Home evaluation and discharge planning

Special Amenities and Services

  • Family owned, non-corporate atmosphere
  • Neighborhood location in historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire
  • Private and semi-private rooms with views of woodlands, ponds and gardens
  • In room phone, TV and WiFi
  • Chef prepared meal choices and a variety of dining options
  • Visiting hours 24/7 and free meals for resident family members
  • On-site salon and spa