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Nursing Facilities AKA - ✔✔Nursing homes (both)
skilled nursing facilities (medicare) (SNF)
Intermediate care facilities (medicaid)
Nursing Facilities - ✔✔Provide a broad range of personal, social, and
medical services to assist people with functional or cognitive limitations
What type of nursing facilities are available? - ✔✔nursing, rehab, custodial
care
What person provides custodial care - ✔✔CNAs
When we say nursing, what types of services are offered in these facilities?
- ✔✔passing out medications, assessments, nurses are also the ones who
carry out physician orders (like new meds or service), wound dressings,
feeding, IVs, etc.
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, How did nursing facilities come about? - ✔✔grew out of charity-based
almshouses
What was the private industry of nursing facilites stimulated by? - ✔✔The
passage of Medicare and Medicaid
Almshouses- - ✔✔to house the poor, provide basic custodial/functional
care, provides shelter and food
when did the development of hospital facilities come about - ✔✔early
1900s. these left the almshouses to care for the older people because other
people were seeking care in other facilities and that is how nursing homes
came about
Development of Nursing facilities - ✔✔negative public image throughout
much of their history:
a place you go to die, being put away, and poor care. Yet there were no real
other alternatives, they had little trouble maintaining occupancy
when did increased government oversight happen in Nursing facilities -
✔✔in 1970s-1980s
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