Nursing Homes in Bessemer, AL

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Oak Trace Care & Rehabilitation Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 325 Selma Road, Bessemer, Alabama 35020
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   Phone: (205) 428-9383
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Terrace Oaks Care & Rehabilitation Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 4201 Bessemer Super Highway, Bessemer, Alabama 35020
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   Phone: (205) 428-3249
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Diversicare Of Bessemer
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 820 Golf Course Road, Bessemer, Alabama 35020
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   Phone: (205) 425-5241
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Oaks On Parkwood Skilled Nursing Facility
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 2625 Laurel Oak Drive, Bessemer, Alabama 35022
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   Phone: (205) 497-4520

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Nursing Home

A nursing home (also called skilled nursing facility) is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living.

A skilled nursing facility (SNF) may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation.

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