Nursing Homes in Bridgeport, CT
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 Jewish Senior Services Medicare and Medicaid Location: 4200 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604 Ratings: Phone: (203) 365-6400 |
Northbridge Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2875 Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut 06606 Ratings: Phone: (203) 336-0232 |
Springs At Watermark 3030 Park, The Medicare Location: 3030 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604 Ratings: Phone: (203) 374-5611 |
News Archive
New article explains the meaning of epidemic from the nursing perspective
An article written almost 30 years ago helps frame social constructs around the COVID-19 pandemic. By reviewing the essay, an historian of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) extends that construct to include nurses and patients, delivering a local and personal meaning to the epidemic experience.
Karolinska Development announces formation of Pergamum AB business unit
Karolinska Development (publ) have announced the formation of Pergamum AB, a company that will commercialize its dermatology and wound healing opportunities as associated business units within one company. Karolinska Development has transferred all of its holdings from its five dermatology and wound healing companies to Pergamum AB, owning 64% of the new company.
GW scientist awarded $1.7 million grant to understand mechanisms behind Hedgehog receptor
Among scientists specializing in the area, the mechanisms behind the signaling function of the Hedgehog (Hh) receptor pathway remain a mystery. Xiaoyen Zheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and regenerative biology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, who recently received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of General Medical Sciences, is determined to learn more about the Hh pathway.
Nutra Pharma to market its OTC pain reliever in Brazil and Colombia, begins the drug registration process
Nutra Pharma Corp., a biotechnology company that is developing treatments for Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), HIV and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), has announced today that it plans to begin the drug registration process in Brazil and Colombia for its over-the-counter (OTC) pain reliever. The company is currently marketing a similar drug in the United States under the brand name Cobroxin for the treatment of moderate to severe (Stage 2) chronic pain.
Researchers find new way to block type 1 diabetes
Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory, Cyteir Therapeutics and collaborating institutions have found a way to protect beta cells from destruction - achieving a longtime, elusive goal that could lead to therapies preventing type 1 diabetes (T1D).
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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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