skilled nursing facility

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MSH: Extended care facilities which provide skilled nursing care or rehabilitation services for inpatients on a daily basis.,CSP: medical institution that provides prolonged, skilled nursing care or rehabilitation services for inpatients on a daily basis, as in cases of prolonged illness or rehabilitation from acute illness.,HL7V3.0: <p>(1) A 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. It meets any licensing or certification standards et forth by the jurisdiction where it is located. A skilled nursing facility may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that

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