Nursing Homes in Needham, MA

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Skilled Nursing Facility At North Hill (the)
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 865 Central Avenue, Needham, Massachusetts 02492
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   Phone: (781) 444-9910
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Briarwood Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 150 Lincoln Street, Needham, Massachusetts 02492
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   Phone: (781) 449-4040
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Wingate At Needham
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 589 Highland Avenue, Needham, Massachusetts 02194
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   Phone: (781) 455-9090

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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.

Note: Nursing homes aren't included on Nursing Home Compare if they aren't Medicare or Medicaid certified. These Nursing Homes can be licensed by the state.

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