Nursing Homes in Littleton, CO
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 Cherrelyn Healthcare Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 5555 S Elati St, Littleton, Colorado 80120 Ratings: Phone: (303) 798-8686 |
Orchard Park Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 6005 S Holly St, Littleton, Colorado 80121 Ratings: Phone: (303) 773-1000 |
Littleton Care And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 5822 S Lowell Way, Littleton, Colorado 80123 Ratings: Phone: (303) 798-2497 |
Life Care Center Of Littleton Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1500 W Mineral Ave, Littleton, Colorado 80120 Ratings: Phone: (303) 795-7300 |
Neurorestorative Colorado Medicare Location: 5945 S Wright St, Littleton, Colorado 80127 Ratings: Phone: (303) 390-3000 |
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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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