Nursing Homes in Mason City, IA
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 Good Shepherd Health Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 302 Second Street Ne, Mason City, Iowa 50401 Ratings: Phone: (641) 424-1740 |
Mercyone North Iowa Medical Services Medicare and Medicaid Location: 910 North Eisenhower Avenue, Mason City, Iowa 50401 Ratings: Phone: (641) 428-7000 |
Heritage Care And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 501 South Kentucky Ave, Mason City, Iowa 50401 Ratings: Phone: (641) 423-2121 |
I O O F Home And Community Therapy Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1037 19th Street Sw, Mason City, Iowa 50401 Ratings: Phone: (641) 423-0428 |
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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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