Nursing Homes in Fairfield, CT
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 Carolton Chronic & Conv Hosp, Medicare and Medicaid Location: 400 Mill Plain Rd, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 Ratings: Phone: (203) 255-3573 |
Cambridge Health And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2428 Easton Tnpk, Fairfield, Connecticut 06825 Ratings: Phone: (203) 372-0313 |
Ludlowe Center For Health & Rehabilitation, Llc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 118 Jefferson Street, Fairfield, Connecticut 06432 Ratings: Phone: (203) 372-4501 |
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A post-campaign survey of AIDS Healthcare Foundation's (AHF) innovative "Stay Negative" social marketing campaign recently revealed the initiative's success at breaking through to its target audience and reaching its objective to create an effective health education and risk reduction campaign to raise awareness among gay males in Los Angeles County that HIV infection is still a serious threat.
Researchers reveal roots of a common type of childhood asthma
Little is known about why asthma develops, how it constricts the airway or why response to treatments varies between patients. Now, a team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, Columbia University Medical Center and SUNY Downstate Medical Center has revealed the roots of a common type of childhood asthma, showing that it is very different from other asthma cases.
Oragenics to feature ProBiora3 oral care probiotic ingredient at Supply Side West
Florida-based biopharmaceutical company Oragenics, Inc. announced that it will feature the company's ProBiora3® oral care probiotic ingredient at Supply Side West, October 19 - 23, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV.
Study shows low-dose oral iron supplementation after blood donation reduces hemoglobin recovery time
Among blood donors with normal hemoglobin levels, low-dose oral iron supplementation, compared with no supplementation, reduced the time to recovery of the postdonation decrease in hemoglobin concentration in donors with low or higher levels of a marker of overall iron storage (ferritin), according to a study in the February 10 issue of JAMA.
IRIN examines report on varying cost of ARVs for countries with similar socioeconomic status
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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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