Nursing Homes in Wilkes Barre, PA
5 Nursing Homes found. Showing 1 - 5
 River View Nursing And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1555 East End Boulevard Plains Twp, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 18711 Ratings: Phone: (570) 826-1011 |
Hampton House Rehabilitation And Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1548 Sans Souci Parkway, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 18702 Ratings: Phone: (570) 825-8725 |
Allied Services Meade Street Skilled Nursing Medicare and Medicaid Location: 200 S. Meade Street, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 18702 Ratings: Phone: (570) 823-6131 |
Gardens At Wyoming Valley, The Medicare and Medicaid Location: 50 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 18701 Ratings: Phone: (570) 825-3488 |
Allied Services Center City Skilled Nursing Medicare and Medicaid Location: 80 E. Northampton Street, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 18701 Ratings: Phone: (570) 826-1031 |
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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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