Nursing Homes in Ashland, AL
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 Clay County Nursing Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 83825 Highway 9, Ashland, Alabama 36251 Ratings: Phone: (256) 354-2131 |
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Researchers explore biological processes of stem cell division
The human body contains trillions of cells, all derived from a single cell, or zygote, made by the fusion of an egg and a sperm. That single cell contains all the genetic information needed to develop into a human, and passes identical copies of that information to each new cell as it divides into the many diverse types of cells that make up a complex organism like a human being.
Medibase's BASEmetric solution using Hitachi's Finger VeinID technology deployed at Ohio health system
Hitachi America, Ltd. and Medibase Solutions, Inc today announced that an Ohio health system with two hospitals is using Hitachi's Finger vein authentication (VeinID), which incorporates Medibase's identity management technology to help ensure accurate patient identification. Initially, the Ohio health system plans to deploy Hitachi's SDK and finger vein scanners in the Emergency Departments of both hospitals.
Republican wish list has stark differences and surprising similarities to Democratic proposals
The Republican leadership lacks a flagship health reform plan, but a variety of ideas and proposals have emerged from rank-and-file members that outline the party's reform principles, Kaiser Health News reports.
Electronic prescribing system may encourage physicians to prescribe lower-cost medications
Clinicians using an electronic prescribing system appear more likely to prescribe lower-cost medications, reducing drug spending, according to a report in the December 8/22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Hitachi Aloka Medical becomes exclusive global distributor of iVu Imaging's SOFIA system
Hitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd. (Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, President: Mr. Minoru Yoshizumi) and iVu Imaging Corporation announced the signing of an agreement making Hitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd. the exclusive global distributor of iVu's SOFIA system, an automated whole breast ultrasound scanner designed to enable the earlier detection of breast cancer in women with mammographically dense breasts.
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Nursing Home
A nursing home (also called 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.A skilled nursing facility (SNF) may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation.
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