Nursing Homes in Chipley, FL
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 Washington Rehabilitation And Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 879 Usery Road, Chipley, Florida 32428 Ratings: Phone: (850) 638-4654 |
Northwest Florida Community Hospital (snu) Medicare Location: 1360 Brickyard Rd, Chipley, Florida 32428 Ratings: Phone: (850) 415-7400 |
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Vice Presidential debate includes references to health care
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.) and Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday during a debate at Washington University in St. Louis discussed health care and other proposals offered by Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the Washington Post reports.
New technology for rehabilitation of amputees
For the first time an operation has been conducted, at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, where electrodes have been permanently implanted in nerves and muscles of an amputee to directly control an arm prosthesis. The result allows natural control of an advanced robotic prosthesis, similarly to the motions of a natural limb.
Autism onset age predicts pattern of development in early years
Researchers have found that the pattern of development differs over the first 3 years of life between children with early- and later-onset autism spectrum disorder.
NIH launches "Knockout Mouse Project"
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today awarded a set of cooperative agreements, totaling up to $52 million over five years, to launch the Knockout Mouse Project.
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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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