Nursing Homes in Jasper, AL
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 Shadescrest Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 331 West 25th Street, Jasper, Alabama 35502 Ratings: Phone: (205) 384-9086 |
Ridgeview Health Services, Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 907 11th Street, Ne, Jasper, Alabama 35504 Ratings: Phone: (205) 221-9111 |
Ridgewood Health Services, Inc. Medicare and Medicaid Location: 201 Oakhill Road, Jasper, Alabama 35504 Ratings: Phone: (205) 221-4862 |
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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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