Nursing Homes in Moundville, AL - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Moundville Health And Rehabilitation, Llc
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: Third Avenue, Moundville, Alabama 35474
Ratings: Phone: (205) 371-2252

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Mothers may cause girls to be picky eaters

Researchers at Appalachian State University have found that mothers who consumed more fruits and vegetables are less likely to pressure their daughters to eat and their daughters are less picky, eat more fruits and vegetables, eat fewer fats and sweets and are less likely to be overweight.

The uninsured, putting off care, facing debt

ProPublica profiles Anne Johnson, a 41-year-old single mother in California "whose family has been uninsured since she lost her job as a secretary in February," and explores how health reform could affect her. Johnson "needs her aortic valve replaced, but without insurance she can't afford the surgery. She is supposed to get checkups every six months, but that is also too expensive - so she has put them off."

2011 Clinical Congress of American College of Surgeons to take place in October, in San Francisco

The 2011 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons—one of the largest international meetings of surgeons in the world—will convene October 23-27, 2011, in San Francisco, CA. The San Francisco Hilton will serve as the headquarters hotel for the meeting, and the Moscone Convention Center will house the scientific panel sessions and courses, as well as all scientific and technical exhibits.

House Democrats hold 'friendly' heartings in an effort to refocus health bill debate

House Democrats tried Tuesday to reframe the debate over health care legislation. Meanwhile, a key House committee chairman says that some of the president's proposals from last week's health care speech are complicating efforts to finalize House legislation.

Vascular mimicry can spread breast cancer to other sites

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it can also have deadly consequences, at least when it comes to tumor cells.

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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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