Nursing Homes in Montrose, CO
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 Valley Manor Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1401 S Cascade, Montrose, Colorado 81401 Ratings: Phone: (970) 249-9634 |
San Juan Living Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1043 Ridge St, Montrose, Colorado 81401 Ratings: Phone: (970) 249-9683 |
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Brains of babies born very prematurely do not develop as well as those who are carried to full-term
"We found that in very premature babies, a part of the brain doesn't show normal growth after birth, and in fact some parts of the brain didn't change at all from the day the babies were born until they reached what would have been a full-term birth date."
Study opens up strategies for early diagnosis, treatment of diseases linked to chronic inflammation
Claudio Franceschi, a world-renowned scientist, professor at the University of Bologna (Italy) and head of the Research Laboratory for Systems Medicine of Healthy Aging at Lobachevsky University, together with other members of an international research team, has described the mechanisms underlying chronic inflammation and identified several risk factors leading to disease.
Study uncovers complicated role of simple protein in spread of osteosarcoma
The investigation of a simple protein has uncovered its uniquely complicated role in the spread of the childhood cancer, osteosarcoma. It turns out the protein, called ezrin, acts like an air traffic controller, coordinating multiple functions within a cancer cell and allowing it to endure stress conditions encountered during metastasis.
Johns Hopkins establishes Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine with Commonwealth Foundation gift
A $30 million gift from the Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research has enabled the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center to establish a Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine. The gift from the Richmond, VA- based foundation, will be used to support research and the development of new technologies that pinpoint the novel genetic characteristics of each patient's cancer.
Modern wildfires pose new health risks for firefighters
As California's wildfire season gets underway in earnest this month — with crews working to contain a 14,000-acre blaze in rugged Modoc County on the Oregon border — new research underscores the risks that modern wildfires pose to firefighters' long-term health.
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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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