Nursing Homes in Centre, AL
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 Cherokee County Health And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 877 Cedar Bluff Road, Centre, Alabama 35960 Ratings: Phone: (256) 927-5778 |
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A.P. Pharma's third quarter net loss increases to $4.2 million
A.P. Pharma, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, today reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2011 and highlighted its recent corporate progress.
Internet-based support can help young people with mentally ill relatives
When someone is affected by mental illness, the people around him or her are forced to act both as supervisor and as support. Research at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has shown that internet-based support can be a great help - and the site created during the research project is now being handed on to voluntary personnel.
Obama seeks to connect with young adults, encourage them to sign up for coverage
The 18-35 year-old demographic is seen as key to achieving stability in the new online insurance marketplaces. But reaching this group is no easy task - their interest and support for the health law appears to be waning.
Changing the underlying structure and culture of a clinic to address opioid epidemic
For the 20 percent of Americans who suffer from chronic pain, prescription opioids may bring relief, but also risks. An estimated 21 to 29 percent of patients who receive chronic opioid treatment will misuse their medications, and 8 to 12 percent will develop an opioid use disorder.
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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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