What is a long-term care facility?

What is a long-term care facility?

Karl Steinberg (Associate Medical Director, Sharp Mission Park Medical Group) gives expert video advice on: Who provides long-term care?; What long-term care options are available?; What is a long-term care facility? and more...

What a long-term care facility actually is - I guess it depends on who you're asking - but typically it would be an institutional setting, and the kind that typically would be licensed, and would be regulated either by a state agency or by federal agencies. And in which people would reside for a long period of time and receive various degrees of health care services, or non health care services, such as just custodial assistance.