Nursing Homes in Kissimmee, FL
6 Nursing Homes found. Showing 1 - 6
 Orchid Cove At Kissimmee Medicare and Medicaid Location: 320 N Mitchell St, Kissimmee, Florida 34741 Ratings: Phone: (407) 847-7200 |
Good Samaritan Society-kissimmee Village Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1500 Southgate Drive, Kissimmee, Florida 34746 Ratings: Phone: (407) 846-7201 |
Terrace Of Kissimmee, The Medicare and Medicaid Location: 221 Park Place Blvd, Kissimmee, Florida 34741 Ratings: Phone: (407) 935-0200 |
Consulate Health Care Of Kissimmee Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2511 John Young Parkway North, Kissimmee, Florida 34741 Ratings: Phone: (407) 931-3336 |
Keystone Rehabilitation And Health Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1120 W Donegan Ave, Kissimmee, Florida 34741 Ratings: Phone: (407) 847-2854 |
Adventhealth Care Center Celebration Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1290 Celebration Blvd, Kissimmee, Florida 34747 Ratings: Phone: (321) 337-7400 |
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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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