Nursing Homes in Sandisfield, MA

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Berkshire Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 7 Sandisfield Road Box 216, Sandisfield, Massachusetts 01255
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   Phone: (413) 258-4731

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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.

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