Residential nursing care activities

This class 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 class 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 class excludes: - palliative nursing care for outpatients, see 86.94 - activities of homes for older persons without or with only minimal nursing care, see 87.30 - provision of residential care and assistance services (e.g. orphanages, children’s boarding homes and hostels, temporary homeless shelters), see 87.99