Nursing Homes in Peabody, MA
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 Pilgrim Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 96 Forest Street, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 Ratings: Phone: (978) 532-0303 |
Care One At Peabody Medicare and Medicaid Location: 199 Andover Street, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 Ratings: Phone: (978) 531-0772 |
Jeffrey & Susan Brudnick Center For Living Medicare and Medicaid Location: 240 Lynnfield Street, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 Ratings: Phone: (781) 598-5310 |
Alliance Health At Rosewood Medicare and Medicaid Location: 22 Johnson Street, Peabody, Massachusetts 01961 Ratings: Phone: (978) 535-8700 |
Continuing Care At Brooksby Village Medicare and Medicaid Location: 400 Brooksby Village Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 Ratings: Phone: (978) 536-2150 |
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Study finds one third of American adults serves as a caregiver
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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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