Nursing and Custodial Care Facilities Subspecialties
Adult Care Home:
This provides professional health and various support services in partnership with individuals and families, to help improve the quality of life for an individual. Adult Home Care is designed to compliment but not replace, the individual efforts to care for themselves, along with the help of their friends, family and community. Adult Home Care will allow an individual to keep their independence with a little assistance.
Alzheimer Center (Dementia Center):
This is a place where dementia patients are diagnosed and treated. Most centers offer a large range of diagnostic and therapeutic options for individuals suffering from Alzheimer's. As well there are often educational programs to help both the patients and their friends and family.
Assisted Living Facility:
These facilities offer supervision or help with the activities of daily living. They are coordinated with services outside medical health care providers, while monitoring resident activities to help make sure the individuals are health, safe and looked after.
Assisted Living, Behavioral Disturbances:
Behavioral Disturbances are associated with a range of neuropsychiatric and behavioral issues. These behavioral issues most often require a placement in an assisted living community or ALC. These individuals are just too unpredictable to reside in a common community residence.
Assisted Living, Mental Illness:
Are facilities that provide supervision and assistance to those with a mental illness. They help monitor the patient to make certain they are safe, healthy and enjoying life. Assisted Living with a Mental Illness is likely to be more hands-on than general Assisted Living.
Christian Science Facility:
These are establishments that provide sanctuary for people that want to rely only on prayer for healing and this is supported by Christian science nurses. These facilities offer twenty-four hour Christian Science Nursing Care. As well this facility may offer outpatient care, home visits, rest and study and respite care.
Custodial Care Facility:
A facility providing a low level of skilled care. Generally just help with the challenges of daily living and very little nursing care. An exception may be observation during medicine taking.
Hospice, Inpatient:
Hospices offer inpatient nursing care is an establishment for dying patient that can't be taken care of at home or in their home. Inpatient Hospice Care can be given either in a set unit called a hospice or in a 'scatter bed' in a hospital. This care is offered twenty-four hours.
Intermediate Care Facility, Mental Illness:
They provide intermediate developmental disability care. This is the provisions of nursing services, health-related services and various social services for people with developmental disabilities or similar issues. Active treatment refers to continuous treatment.
Intermediate Care Facility, Mentally Retarded:
They provide intermediate developmental disability care. This is the provisions of nursing services, health-related services and various social services for people with developmental disabilities or similar issues. Active treatment refers to continuous treatment.
Nursing Care, Pediatric:
This is the specialty nursing care of infants, children and adolescents. It is also referred to as Child Health Nursing. Nurses in this specialty are usually referred to as Pediatric Nurses.
Nursing Facility/Intermediate Care Facility:
This facility has the capacity of 4-15 beds and offers twenty-four hour care. As well it has developmental services and nursing supervision for developmentally disabled people. The facility houses medically fragile people who have developmental issues.
Skilled Nursing Facility:
A facility that houses the chronically hill, normally older patients, and offers long-term nursing care, rehabilitation and numerous other health related services. This is also referred to as a long-term care facility or nursing home. This facility has the appropriate facilities for storing and delivering drugs and it is fully licensed.