Nursing Homes in Cedar Falls, IA
5 Nursing Homes found. Showing 1 - 5
 Cedar Falls Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1728 West Eighth Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 Ratings: Phone: (319) 277-2437 |
Pinnacle Specialty Care Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1223 Prairieview Road, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 Ratings: Phone: (319) 268-0489 |
Newaldaya Lifescapes Medicare and Medicaid Location: 7511 University Avenue, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 Ratings: Phone: (319) 268-0401 |
Martin Health Center, Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 420 East 11th Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 Ratings: Phone: (319) 277-2141 |
The Suites At Western Home Communities Medicare and Medicaid Location: 5301 Caraway Lane, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 Ratings: Phone: (515) 758-0528 |
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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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