Nursing Homes in Elizabethton, TN
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 Signature Healthcare Of Elizabethon Rehab & Wellne Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1200 Spruce Lane, Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643 Ratings: Phone: (423) 543-3202 |
Life Care Center Of Elizabethton Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1641 Highway 19e, Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643 Ratings: Phone: (423) 542-4133 |
Hillview Health Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1666 Hillview Drive, Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643 Ratings: Phone: (423) 542-5061 |
Ivy Hall Nursing Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 301 Watauga Ave, Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643 Ratings: Phone: (423) 542-6512 |
Hermitage Health Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1633 Hillview Drive, Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643 Ratings: Phone: (423) 543-2571 |
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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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