Nursing Homes in Emmetsburg, IA
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 Emmetsburg Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2405 21st Street, Emmetsburg, Iowa 50536 Ratings: Phone: (712) 852-4266 |
Lakeside Lutheran Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 301 North Lawler Street, Emmetsburg, Iowa 50536 Ratings: Phone: (712) 852-4060 |
Palo Alto County Hospital Medicaid Location: 3201 First Street, Emmetsburg, Iowa 50536 Ratings: Phone: (712) 852-5520 |
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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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