Nursing Homes in Tujunga, CA
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 North Valley Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 7660 Wyngate St, Tujunga, California 91042 Ratings: Phone: (818) 352-1454 |
Oakpark Healthcare Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 9166 Tujunga Canyon Blvd, Tujunga, California 91042 Ratings: Phone: (818) 352-4426 |
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Japan to evacuate pregnant women, children at risk of high radiation levels outside of evacuation zone
"Japan plans to ask pregnant women and children to move away from radiation 'hotspots' that were found far away from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the government said on Thursday, reflecting new anxieties about the spread of radioactivity," Reuters reports.
U.N. Calls for increased collaboration, funding to fight malaria ahead of World Malaria Day on Wednesday
Speaking at a press conference at U.N. Headquarters ahead of World Malaria Day, observed Wednesday, a U.N. envoy on Monday called for "an increase in collaboration and partnerships among donor and recipient countries ... to boost efforts to prevent and treat malaria, ... while also calling for an increase in funding to combat the deadly disease," the U.N. News Centre reports.
Aterovax presents results of its sPLA2 activity test in the PEACE trial
Aterovax SA, a company developing innovative products for atherosclerosis, today announced data demonstrating that its blood test for secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) activity significantly improves cardiovascular risk prediction in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) over a 5 year period, independent of established risk markers, including C-reactive protein.
Adding PET scans to CT imaging can change treatment for women with cervical cancer
An Ontario clinical study that shows adding PET imaging to conventional CT imaging to stage locally advanced cervix cancer can change treatment means newly diagnosed women in this province may also receive PET imaging.
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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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