Nursing Homes in Monterey, CA
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 Windsor Monterey Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1575 Skyline Drive, Monterey, California 93940 Ratings: Phone: (831) 373-2731 |
Carmel Hills Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 23795 W. R. Holman Highway, Monterey, California 93940 Ratings: Phone: (831) 624-1875 |
Cypress Ridge Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1501 Skyline Drive, Monterey, California 93940 Ratings: Phone: (831) 373-3716 |
Westland House Medicare Location: 100 Barnet Segal Lane, Monterey, California 93940 Ratings: Phone: (831) 658-3737 |
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Health IT: Apps; Competitive contracts; Electronic medical records
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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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