Nursing Homes in Gadsden, AL
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 Gadsden Health And Rehab Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1945 Davis Drive, Gadsden, Alabama 35904 Ratings: Phone: (256) 547-4938 |
Mcguffey Health & Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2301 Rainbow Drive, Gadsden, Alabama 35999 Ratings: Phone: (256) 543-3467 |
Northside Health Care Medicare and Medicaid Location: 700 Hutchins Avenue, Gadsden, Alabama 35901 Ratings: Phone: (256) 543-7101 |
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Study looks at mental illness and violent behavior
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Prehistoric baby bottles: evidence animal milk fed to prehistoric babies
A new study shows that infants in Bronze and Iron Age communities were fed milk using feeding vessels of clay. This report, appearing on September 25, 2019, in the journal Nature, shows the important place that animal milk has played in human food for thousands of years.
Protein in the blood could predict type 2 diabetes many years before diagnosis
A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has identified a protein in the blood that could predict type 2 diabetes up to nineteen years before the onset of the disease.
Young adults reduce binge drinking after receiving text messages following visit to ER
Young adults who screened positive for a history of hazardous or binge drinking reduced their binge drinking by more than 50 percent after receiving mobile phone text messages following a visit to the emergency department, according to a study published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("A Text Message Alcohol Intervention for Young Adult Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial").
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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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