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nursing home

noun

  1. a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.

  2. 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

  1. a private hospital or residence staffed and equipped to care for aged or infirm persons

  2. a private maternity home

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of nursing home1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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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.

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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.

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Before World War Two, most babies in the UK were born at home, or in nursing homes, attended by midwives and the family doctor.

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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.

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The judge refused to let him serve his term in a nursing home as his lawyers requested.

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