Nursing Homes in Kentucky - Ratings, Location, NPI Details

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Fountain Circle Care & Rehabilitation Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 200 Glenway Road, Winchester, Kentucky 40391
Ratings: Phone: (859) 744-1800

Clark Regional Medical Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 175 Hospital Drive, Winchester, Kentucky 40391
Ratings: Phone: (859) 737-8559

Hopkins Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 460 South College Street, Woodburn, Kentucky 42170
Ratings: Phone: (270) 529-2853

Wurtland Nursing & Rehabilitation
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 100 Wurtland Avenue, Wurtland, Kentucky 41144
Ratings: Phone: (606) 836-0931

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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.

Nursing Home Compare

Nursing Home Compare allows consumers to compare information about nursing homes. It contains quality of care and staffing information for all 15,000 plus Medicare- and Medicaid-participating nursing homes.

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Nursing Homes in Kentucky - Ratings, Address, Contact