Nursing Homes in Pittsfield, MA
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 Mt Greylock Extended Care Facility Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1000 North Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01201 Ratings: Phone: (413) 499-7186 |
Springside Rehabilitation And Skilled Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 255 Lebanon Avenue, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01201 Ratings: Phone: (413) 499-2334 |
Hillcrest Commons Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 169 Valentine Road, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01201 Ratings: Phone: (413) 445-2300 |
Berkshire Place Medicare Location: 290 South Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01201 Ratings: Phone: (413) 445-4056 |
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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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