Nursing Homes in Tuscumbia, AL
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 Keller Landing Medicare and Medicaid Location: 813 Keller Lane, Tuscumbia, Alabama 35674 Ratings: Phone: (256) 383-1535 |
Cottage Of The Shoals Medicare and Medicaid Location: 500 John Aldridge Drive, Tuscumbia, Alabama 35674 Ratings: Phone: (256) 383-4541 |
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Stanford University School of Medicine adopts new, industry-funded model for continuing physicians' education
Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a new, industry-funded model for the continuing education of physicians that aims to improve patient care while ensuring that corporate donors do not exert influence over the curriculum.
1.2 million hospitalized patients experienced an adverse drug event
In 2004, 1.2 million hospitalized patients experienced an adverse drug event, 90 percent of which were due to a side effect from a medication that was properly administered, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Important insight into association between childhood maltreatment and suicide
Exposure to childhood maltreatment increases the risk for most psychiatric disorders as well as many negative consequences of these conditions. This new study, by Dr. Gustavo Turecki and colleagues at McGill University, Canada, provides important insight into one of the most extreme outcomes, suicide.
Britain's Chief Medical Officer has announced new measures to tackle and eliminate tuberculosis in Britain
The Plan, Stopping Tuberculosis in England, provides a strong commitment to tackle the disease by increasing the awareness of the disease amongst health professional and the public, establishing high quality surveillance to monitor the disease concentrating on high risk groups, identifying the infection early, and ensuring excellence in clinical care for patients with TB.
Nanoparticles may help diagnose and treat pancreatic and ovarian cancer
The research - carried out by a group of five institutions, including Einstein, that comprise the Texas Center for Cancer Nanomedicine - could lead to novel ways to diagnose and treat pancreatic and ovarian cancer using nanoparticles.
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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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