871000 Residential nursing care activities

This type includes the provision of residential care, with medical assistance, nursing and rehabilitation treatments. These establishments have a permanent core staff of registered or licensed practical nurses that, along with other staff, provide nursing care in combination with personal care. The medical or nursing care services typically include administering medication, performing medical diagnoses and dressing wounds, and are chiefly provided without the supervision of a medical doctor located on the premises.

This type includes activities of:

• homes for older persons with nursing care
• convalescent homes, other than mental health and substance abuse facilities
• rest homes with nursing care
• nursing care facilities
• nursing homes/hospices
• inpatient care hospices for palliative care

This type excludes:

• palliative nursing care for out-patients, see 869401
• activities of homes for the older persons without or with only minimal nursing care, see 873001
• provision of residential care and assistance services (e.g. orphanages, children's boarding homes and hostels, temporary homeless shelters), see 8799