Nursing home definition

Nursing home means that term as defined in section 20109 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20109.
Nursing home means a building used for the accommodation and care of persons with chronic illness or disability, including persons with mobility and eating problems;
Nursing home means a facility with an organized nursing staff to maintain and operate organized facilities and services to accommodate two or more unrelated persons over a period exceeding twenty‑four hours which is operated either in connection with a hospital or as a freestanding facility for the express or implied purpose of providing intermediate or skilled nursing care for persons who are not in need of hospital care.

Examples of Nursing home in a sentence

  • Nursing home administrators and designated staff also provided information on facility size, ownership, certification status, services provided, revenues and expenses, and other facility characteristics.


More Definitions of Nursing home

Nursing home means any health care institution which comes under chapter 18.51 RCW.
Nursing home means a facility licensed under chapter 18.51
Nursing home means nursing home as defined in RCW 18.51.010.
Nursing home means a home used for the reception and care of individuals who by reason of illness or physical or mental impairment require skilled nursing care and of individuals who require personal care services but not skilled nursing care. A nursing home is licensed to provide personal care services and skilled nursing care.
Nursing home means any facility or any identifiable component of any facility licensed pursuant to
Nursing home means any house, apartment or premises which is used or intended to be used for the reception, care and treatment of persons who on account of age, infirmity, chronic ill health or the effects of illness from which they are convalescent require nursing, care and supervision or care and supervision.
Nursing home means a public facility, proprietary facility, or facility of a private nonprofit corporation or association, licensed or regulated by the State (or, if there is no State law providing for such licensing and regulation by the State, by the municipality or other political subdivision in which the facility is located), for the accommodation of convalescents or other persons who are not acutely ill and not in need of hospital care but who require skilled nursing care and related medical services, in which such nursing care and medical services are prescribed by, or are performed under the general direction of, persons licensed to provide such care or services in accordance with the laws of the State where the facility is located.