Nursing Homes in Asheville, NC
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 Accordius Health At Asheville Medicare and Medicaid Location: 500 Beaverdam Road, Asheville, North Carolina 28804 Ratings: Phone: (828) 254-8833 |
Carolina Pines At Asheville Medicare and Medicaid Location: 91 Victoria Road, Asheville, North Carolina 28801 Ratings: Phone: (828) 255-0076 |
Aston Park Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 380 Brevard Road, Asheville, North Carolina 28806 Ratings: Phone: (828) 253-4437 |
Stonecreek Health And Rehabilitation Medicare and Medicaid Location: 455 Victoria Road, Asheville, North Carolina 28801 Ratings: Phone: (828) 252-0099 |
The Laurels Of Greentree Ridge Medicare and Medicaid Location: 70 Sweeten Creek Road, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 Ratings: Phone: (828) 274-7646 |
Givens Health Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 600 Barrett Lane, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 Ratings: Phone: (828) 771-2900 |
Western North Carolina Baptist Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 213 Richmond Hill Drive, Asheville, North Carolina 28806 Ratings: Phone: (828) 254-9675 |
The Laurels Of Summit Ridge Medicare and Medicaid Location: 100 Riceville Road, Asheville, North Carolina 28805 Ratings: Phone: (828) 299-1110 |
Emerald Ridge Rehab And Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 25 Reynolds Mountain Boulevard, Asheville, North Carolina 28804 Ratings: Phone: (828) 645-6619 |
Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Medicare Location: 1617 Hendersonvelle Road, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 Ratings: Phone: (828) 274-1531 |
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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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