Nursing Homes in Iowa City, IA
3 Nursing Homes found. Showing 1 - 3
 Oaknoll Retirement Residence Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1 Oaknoll Ct, Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Ratings: Phone: (319) 351-1720 |
Briarwood Healthcare Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 605 Greenwood Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52246 Ratings: Phone: (319) 338-7912 |
Iowa City Rehab & Health Care Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3661 Rochester Avenue, Iowa City, Iowa 52245 Ratings: Phone: (319) 351-7460 |
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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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