Provides health-related care and services to persons who do not require the degree of care or treatment normally provided by a hospital or skilled treatment facility but who do require health-related institutional care beyond the level of room and board. Eligible for Medicaid reimbursement, domiciliary care facility.
An institution recognized under the Medicaid program which is licensed under State law to provide, on a regular basis, health-related care and services to individuals who do not require the degree of care or treatment which a hospital or skilled nursing facility is designed to provide, but who because of their mental or physical condition require care and services (above the level of room and board; which can be made available to them only through institutional facilities. Public institutions for care of the mentally retarded or people with related conditions are also included. The distinction between ”health-related care and services” and “room and board” has often proven difficult to make but is important because ICFs are subject to quite different regulation and coverage than institutions which do not provide health related care and services. An ICF/MR is an ICF which cares solely or particularly for the mentally retarded.
A type of nursing facility that provides food, lodging, and custodial care of people who are too ill or frail to care for themselves independently. ICFs provide regular (but not around-the-clock) nursing care.
Also known as an ICF, a type of nursing facility that provides food, lodging, and custodial care for people who are too ill or frail to care for themselves independently. Older people or those with serious illnesses or disabilities may enter intermediate care facilities, which provide regular (but not around-the-clock) nursing care. Some facilities also offer recreational programs. ICFs provide more services than assisted living facilities, which are geared toward more able and independent people; they provide fewer services than skilled nursing facilities, which are overseen by doctors, provide around-the-clock nursing care, and are meant for those who require more in-tensive medical and rehabilitative care.
A free-standing facility which provides “intermediate care” (the second highest level of nursing care, sometimes called “basic nursing care”). Such a facility would typically have a registered nurse (RN) on site during at least one nursing shift, rather than for two nursing shifts as in a “skilled nursing facility” (SNF).