Nursing Homes in Panama City, FL
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 St Andrews Bay Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2100 Jenks Ave, Panama City, Florida 32405 Ratings: Phone: (850) 763-0446 |
Community Health And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3611 Transmitter Road, Panama City, Florida 32404 Ratings: Phone: (850) 747-9688 |
Clifford Chester Sims State Veterans Nursing Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 4419 Tram Road, Panama City, Florida 32404 Ratings: Phone: (850) 747-5401 |
Pruitthealth - Panama City Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3212 Jenks Avenue, Panama City, Florida 32405 Ratings: Phone: (770) 279-6200 |
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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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