Nursing & Custodial Care Facilities Taxonomy Codes
List of Level II - Classification Taxonomy Codes
The nursing & custodial care facilities taxonomy group categorized under the "non-individuals" codes provider grouping and includes 13 unique taxonomy codes. A broad category identifying licensed facilities with inpatient beds specializing in nursing and custodial care.
| Code | Classification | Specialization | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 310400000X | Assisted Living Facility | A facility providing supportive services to individuals who can function independently in most areas of activity, but need assistance and/or monitoring to assure safety and well being. | |
| 3104A0625X | Assisted Living Facility | Assisted Living, Mental Illness | A facility providing supportive services to individuals who can function independently in most areas of activity, but need special guidance, assistance and/or monitoring as the result of a psychiatric problem. This type of facility requires a staff with special training in mental health training and dealing with psychiatric emergencies. |
| 3104A0630X | Assisted Living Facility | Assisted Living, Behavioral Disturbances | A facility providing supportive services to individuals who can function independently in most areas of activity, but exhibit abnormal behavioral responses and habits and therefore need special guidance, assistance and/or monitoring to assure safety and well being. This type of facility requires a staff with special training in dealing with and redirecting negative, violent or destructive behaviors. |
| 310500000X | Intermediate Care Facility, Mental Illness | A nursing facility that provides an intermediate level of nursing care to individuals whose functional abilities are significantly compromise by mental illness. | |
| 311500000X | Alzheimer Center (Dementia Center) | A freestanding facility or special care unit of a long term care facility focusing on patient care of individuals diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's Disease or their related diseases. Six elements of the facility/unit set it apart from other (the rest of the) facilities(y): Admission of residents with dementia (including those with Alzheimer's disease); Staff who are specially selected, trained, and supervised; Activities that are specifically designed for the cognitively impaired; A marketing of a special care unit in brochures; A high level of family involvement; and A physical environment designed to keep residents safe and segregated from other populations. | |
| 311Z00000X | Custodial Care Facility | A facility providing care that serves to assist an individual in the activities of daily living, such as assistance in walking, getting in and out of bed, bathing, dressing, feeding, and using the toilet, preparation of special diets, and supervision of medication that usually can be self-administered. Custodial care essentially is personal care that does not require the continuing attention of trained medical or paramedical personnel. | |
| 311ZA0620X | Custodial Care Facility | Adult Care Home | A custodial care facility providing supportive and personal care services to disabled and/or elderly individuals who cannot function independently in most areas of activity and need assistance and monitoring to enable them to remain in a home like environment. |
| 313M00000X | Nursing Facility/Intermediate Care Facility | An institution (or a distinct part of an institution) which- (1) is primarily engaged in providing to residents- (A) skilled nursing care and related services for residents who require medical or nursing care, (B) rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled, or sick persons, or, on a regular basis, health-related care and services to individuals 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, and is not primarily for the care and treatment of mental diseases; (2) has in effect a transfer agreement with one or more hospitals. | |
| 314000000X | Skilled Nursing Facility | (1) A skilled nursing facility is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living. It meets any licensing or certification standards et forth by the jurisdiction where it is located. A skilled nursing facility may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation; (2) Provides non-acute medical and skilled nursing care services, therapy and social services under the supervision of a licensed registered nurse on a 24-hour basis. | |
| 3140N1450X | Skilled Nursing Facility | Nursing Care, Pediatric | A nursing care facility designed and staffed for the provision of nursing care and appropriate educational and habilitative/rehabilitative services to children with multiple, complex or profound disabilities that can not be cared for in a less restrictive environment. |
| 315D00000X | Hospice, Inpatient | A provider organization, or distinct part of the organization, which renders an interdisciplinary program providing palliative care, chiefly medical relief of pain and supporting services, which addresses the emotional, social, financial, and legal needs of terminally ill patients and their families where an institutional care environment is required for the patient. | |
| 315P00000X | Intermediate Care Facility, Intellectual Disabilities | An intermediate care facility providing services for individuals with intellectual disabilities. | |
| 317400000X | Christian Science Facility | Inactive, use 282J00000X |