Health Care Facility (applicable to Title I only)

Health Care Facility (applicable to Title I only)

A Health Care Facility refers to a proprietary facility or a facility of a private nonprofit corporation or association licensed or regulated by the state or by the municipality or other political subdivision in which the facility is located, and operated as one or more of the following: • a nursing home for the accommodation of convalescents or other persons who are not acutely ill and not in need of hospital care, but who require skilled nursing care and related medical services performed under the general direction of persons licensed by the law of the state where the facility is located to provide such care or services; • an intermediate Health Care Facility for the accommodation of persons who, because of incapacitating infirmities, require minimum but continuous care, but not continuous medical care or nursing services; • an extended Health Care Facility for inpatient care for convalescents or chronic disease patients who require skilled nursing care and related medical services; or • another comparable Health Care Facility.