Nursing Homes in Orangeburg, SC
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 Jolley Acres Healthcare Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1180 Wolfe Trail, Orangeburg, South Carolina 29115 Ratings: Phone: (803) 534-1001 |
Pruitthealth-orangeburg Medicare and Medicaid Location: 755 Whitman Street Se, Orangeburg, South Carolina 29115 Ratings: Phone: (803) 534-7036 |
Edisto Post Acute Medicare and Medicaid Location: 575 Stonewall Jackson Boulevard, Orangeburg, South Carolina 29115 Ratings: Phone: (803) 534-7771 |
The Methodist Oaks Medicare and Medicaid Location: 151 Lovely Drive, Orangeburg, South Carolina 29115 Ratings: Phone: (803) 534-1212 |
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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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