A Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) has registered nurses who provide 24 hour care for persons in residential areas and generally on long term basis for themselves due to physical, emotional, or mental conditions. These SNF facilities specialize in 24 hour care and monitoring of persons whose needs are normally so critical where they need constant monitoring, but not so sever, where hospitalization is required. The staff at SNF is ready to help people with their routine daily living activities such as dressing, bathing, meals etc, though, person(s) are encouraged to do all this as much for themselves as they can, to assist them keep up their own independence. Services that are offered by such SNF include, but are not limited to: meals, laundry, housekeeping, therapies, transportation, religious activities and other daily activities. Most nursing homes have two types of basic services: Skilled Medical Care and Custodial Care. Skilled Medical Care consists of the specialized health support required for a specific period of time because of an injury or illness.
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