Nursing Homes in Cherokee, IA

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Cherokee Specialty Care
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 1011 North Roosevelt, Cherokee, Iowa 51012
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   Phone: (712) 225-5189
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Accura Healthcare Of Cherokee, Llc
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 921 Riverview Drive, Cherokee, Iowa 51012
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   Phone: (712) 225-5724
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Careage Hills Rehabilitation And Healthcare
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 725 North Second Street, Cherokee, Iowa 51012
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   Phone: (712) 225-2561

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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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