Nursing Homes in Griffin, GA
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 Pruitthealth - Griffin Medicare and Medicaid Location: 619 Northside Drive, Griffin, Georgia 30223 Ratings: Phone: (770) 228-4517 |
Renaissance Center For Nursing And Healing Medicare and Medicaid Location: 415 Airport Road, Griffin, Georgia 30223 Ratings: Phone: (770) 227-8636 |
Brightmoor Health Care, Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3235 Newnan Road, Griffin, Georgia 30223 Ratings: Phone: (770) 228-8599 |
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Valley Hospital becomes first hospital in New Jersey to use minimally-invasive approach to treat PAD
The Valley Hospital today announced it was the first hospital in New Jersey to use a recently approved device to offer a minimally-invasive approach to the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the upper leg, a serious and common condition associated with an increased risk for heart attack and stroke.
Gates Foundation appoints global health policy head to lead new London office
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Thursday that Joe Cerrell, who currently leads the foundation's global health policy and advocacy group, will head a new Gates Foundation office in London beginning in January 2010, the Wall Street Journal reports.
University of Louisville receives NIH funding to support research into liver-related illness
The University of Louisville Hepatobiology and Toxicology Center of Biomedical Research Excellence has received $11.3 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to support its research into liver-related illness for an additional five years.
Inspector General finds unclear definition, enforcement of 'conflict of interest' may alter Medicare coverage decisions
Deciding which drugs will be covered by Medicare can influence huge amounts of spending, but government officials do little to police conflict of interest among doctors and pharmacists who make those decisions, federal investigators said Monday.
New method could predict individual patient responses to drug treatments
Scientists from Imperial College London and Pfizer have developed a new method that could predict individual patient responses to drug treatments. The authors anticipate that the development will advance biomedical research further towards development of personalised medicines.
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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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