Nursing home and assisted living services are considered types of long-term care. Long-term care consists of not just medical services, but also personal services, for people who have a disability or illness.
If your practitioner doesn't offer the GBS test during late pregnancy, ask for it. When group B strep testing is done This test is usually performed between week 35 and week 37 of pregnancy (testing before 35 weeks isn't accurate in predicting who will be carrying GBS at the time of labor).
Of the mothers who test positive for GBS and are treated with antibiotics in labor, the risk of infection drops from 1 in 200 babies to 1 in 4,000. Early infections tend to occur in the first six hours up to the seventh day following birth.