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Is a nursing home and skilled nursing facility the same thing?

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Is a nursing home and skilled nursing facility the same thing?

A nursing home is again just a generic term that you would apply to basically all nursing homes, all nursing facilities, both skilled and non skilled. So they're not exactly the same thing. A skilled nursing facility will have a higher level of nursing care and the ability to care for more complex medical conditions, whereas a nursing facility generally does custodial care and low level nursing interventions. They may be able to take care of a feeding tube or certain kinds of bed sores, but they aren't going to be doing IV antibiotics or taking care of trach patients or ventilator patients, things like that.

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