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nursing home

noun

  1. a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
  2. Chiefly British. a small private hospital; a small hospital owned by one person or a group of individuals and supported solely by the fees of patients.


nursing home

noun

  1. a private hospital or residence staffed and equipped to care for aged or infirm persons
  2. a private maternity home


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nursing home1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

He's now facing new allegations of his administration actively withholding data on coronavirus deaths in nursing homes in order to delay potential investigations.

From Axios

Another critical factor in New York’s numbers is that the state’s deaths, overall and in nursing homes, largely occurred last spring at the outset of the pandemic.

While vaccine eligibility varies from state to state, health care workers and residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities were prioritized across the board first, and now most states have begun vaccinating older adults.

From Eater

Mosley, 53, knew by this time that nursing homes were particularly vulnerable to outbreaks of the coronavirus, but her nursing-assistant job was her only source of income.

We have seen vaccine hand delivered to homes, nursing homes, work sites and hospital workers on shift.

Nor are we told that she lost her job at a local nursing home after she tried to register to vote in 1964.

She spent almost two years in a nursing home – two years of loneliness she would like to forget.

He was known to traverse Brooklyn to visit somebody a decade older than himself in a nursing home.

“One of the directors of a local nursing home said 85 percent of his residents had no visitors,” Zador told The Daily Beast.

But, in a campaign defined by a blogger breaking into a nursing home, stranger things have happened.

"I sent her on an ambulance to a nursing-home in London," said Tarling shortly.

Remember that she did not even know where the nursing home was situated.

He got into Tarling's cab, and a few minutes later they were at the nursing home.

On his way back from the nursing home to police headquarters, he reviewed the Hertford crime.

He had learnt that Odette Rider was in London in a nursing home, as the result of a set of curious circumstances.

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