Nursing Homes in Birmingham, AL
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 Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility Medicare Location: 3850 Galleria Woods Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35244 Ratings: Phone: (205) 985-7537 |
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WFP begins series of air drops to deliver food to refugees in South Sudan
"The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) carried out the first in a series of air drops to replenish rapidly diminishing food stocks for more than 100,000 people in South Sudan who have fled fighting in Sudan," the U.N. News Centre reports.
Proxsys Rx provides end-to-end solution to help hospitals comply with all 340B program
Proxsys Rx, the nation's largest Integrated Outpatient Pharmacy Provider (IOPP), now provides an end-to-end solution to hospitals to help them comply with all aspects of the 340B program. Under the federally mandated 340B program, drug makers must provide eligible organizations with certain prescription drugs at significantly reduced prices.
Endo Announces Updated XIAFLEX® Label in Patients with Dupuytren's Contracture
DC is a chronic condition affecting the hand in which abnormal buildup of collagen can cause the fingers to bend and be drawn in toward the palm...
Study may point to immediate cause of CF exacerbations
In the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis (CF), the most severe symptoms are recurring episodes of lung inflammation and bacterial infection (known as "exacerbations") that happen from one to three times a year and cause ever-increasing amounts of lung damage through the course of a CF patient's life.
Species extinctions could compromise the benefits that nature provides to society
An international team of scientists has published a new analysis showing that as plant species around the world go extinct, natural habitats become less productive and contain fewer total plants –– a situation that could ultimately compromise important benefits that humans get from nature.
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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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