Nursing Homes in Chatsworth, GA
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 Chatsworth Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 102 Hospital Drive, Chatsworth, Georgia 30705 Ratings: Phone: (706) 695-8313 |
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Study identifies seven new genetic regions associated with type 2 diabetes
Seven new genetic regions associated with type 2 diabetes have been identified in the largest study to date of the genetic basis of the disease.
ABC News profiles former U.N. diplomat responsible for building first maternity hospital in Somalia
ABC News profiles Edna Adan, a 75-year-old former U.N. diplomat responsible for building the first maternity hospital in her country of Somalia. "I could have retired and lived somewhere else in the world, but I think I would have found it difficult to live with myself," Adan told ABC News, according to the news service. In 1991, she "cashed in her pension from the World Health Organization, sold all of her jewelry and belongings - including her favorite car, a Mercedes - and spent $300,000 of her own money to build a hospital," the news service writes.
Washington to get 160,000 additional doses of influenza vaccine
About 160,000 additional doses of influenza vaccine will be sent to Washington over the next two months. That is our state's share under a formula used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to distribute the remaining vaccine around the nation.
Chronic kidney disease patients are excluded from clinical trials
Kidney diseases affect 850 million people worldwide, a figure twice as high as that of diabetes. Yet patients with chronic kidney disease are still being excluded from clinical trials.
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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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