Nursing Homes in Lauderdale Lakes, FL
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 Palms Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3370 Nw 47th Terrace, Lauderdale Lakes, Florida 33319 Ratings: Phone: (954) 733-0655 |
St Johns Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3075 Nw 35th Ave, Lauderdale Lakes, Florida 33311 Ratings: Phone: (954) 739-6233 |
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Years after law, former congressman continues mental health coverage parity battle
Despite a mental health parity law passed in 2008, one of the measure's key backers - former Congressman Patrick Kennedy - continues the fight for equal coverage of mental illness and is meeting mixed success.
Nigerian Vaccine Summit an opportunity to translate political will into action
In this post in the Huffington Post Blog, Orin Levine, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), reports on the Nigerian Vaccine Summit, where Nigeria's leaders will meet this week to discuss children's health in the country.
Renewed interest in studying influenza A viruses
The emergence of the avian influenza virus H5N1 that is currently devastating chicken flocks in many countries and threatening to unleash a worldwide epidemic among humans has triggered a renewed interest among scientists in studying influenza A viruses, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Researchers show how fish oil component helps in survival of injured retina, brain cells
A team of researchers led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has shown for the first time that NDP1, a signaling molecule made from DHA, can trigger the production of a protective protein against toxic free radicals and injury in the brain and retina.
BMI unreliable when assessing obesity and risk of heart disease
According to doctors in the United States the standard measure of obesity, the Body Mass Index (BMI), is badly flawed and may not be such an accurate indicator as it lumps muscle and fat into one category.
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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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