Long Term Care

Fulton County Medical Center Nursing Home is a 67 bed hospital-based long term care facility.  The nursing home offers quality care in a friendly home environment. 

The hospital-based nursing home offers direct availability to services such as lab, x-ray, EKG, respiratory therapy, rehab services and 24 hour physician availability for emergencies. (717) 485-6134

The History of Long Term Care At FCMC

Just as Dr. MacKinley saw Fulton County's need for a hospital to be built in the 1950’s a similar need arose to take care of the aged population in the early 1970’s. Just before Christmas in 1976 FCMC opened its extended care wing of the hospital. Nineteen residents made FCMC their home permanently. Nine of the nineteen residents came from the former Decker Nursing Home.

One year later, FCMC opened their intermediate care unit. FCMC could now offer three levels of care, acute care, intermediate care and skilled care. This would eventually make up the 57 beds that FCMC maintained until 2007 when they moved to their new facility and added an additional 10 beds for individuals needing long term care.

Today, FCMC Long Term Care is very much a vital part of the organization. Health care has dramatically changed since 1970 when the LTC unit was built, however the quality of care, coupled with the family-like atmosphere has remained unchanged.