Nursing Homes in Jamaica, NY
7 Nursing Homes found. Showing 1 - 7
 Margaret Tietz Center For Nursing Care Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 164 11 Chapin Parkway, Jamaica, New York 11432 Ratings: Phone: (718) 298-7800 |
Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home Co Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 89-40 135th Street, Jamaica, New York 11418 Ratings: Phone: (718) 206-5000 |
Highland Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 91 31 175th Street, Jamaica, New York 11432 Ratings: Phone: (718) 657-6363 |
Chapin Home For The Aging Medicare and Medicaid Location: 165 01 Chapin Parkway, Jamaica, New York 11432 Ratings: Phone: (718) 739-2523 |
Silvercrest Medicare and Medicaid Location: 144 45 87th Avenue, Jamaica, New York 11435 Ratings: Phone: (718) 480-4026 |
N Y S Veterans Home In N Y C Medicare and Medicaid Location: 178 50 Linden Blvd, Jamaica, New York 11434 Ratings: Phone: (718) 990-0329 |
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center T C U Medicare Location: 8900 Van Wyck Expressway, Jamaica, New York 11418 Ratings: Phone: (718) 206-6595 |
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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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