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nursing home
noun
a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
Chiefly British.a small private hospital; a small hospital owned by one person or a group of individuals and supported solely by the fees of patients.
nursing home
noun
a private hospital or residence staffed and equipped to care for aged or infirm persons
a private maternity home
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of nursing home1
Example Sentences
All states except Alaska have at least one provider tax on managed care plans, hospitals, nursing homes, emergency ground transportation, or other types of health care businesses.
The California Public Health Department has dropped efforts to suspend the license of a Hollywood nursing home whose actions were found to have led to two patient deaths in recent years.
Before World War Two, most babies in the UK were born at home, or in nursing homes, attended by midwives and the family doctor.
The facilities include Ararat Nursing Facility, a Mission Hills nursing home cited last year over lapses related to two residents’ deaths less than three months apart.
The judge refused to let him serve his term in a nursing home as his lawyers requested.
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