Nursing Homes in Swainsboro, GA
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 Pruitthealth - Swainsboro Medicare and Medicaid Location: 856 Highway 1 South, Swainsboro, Georgia 30401 Ratings: Phone: (478) 237-7022 |
Emanuel County Nursing Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 117 Kite Road, Swainsboro, Georgia 30401 Ratings: Phone: (478) 289-1334 |
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Supercomputer study of the brain could lead to safer and more effective anesthetics
Researchers have used a supercomputer to show how proteins in the brain control electrical signals, in a breakthrough that could lead to safer and more effective drugs and anesthetics.
House GOP to vote on 'doc fix' bill that repeals health law individual mandate
The bill could put House Democrats in an awkward spot, but would be a nonstarter in the Democrat-controlled Senate and could kill prospects this year to get rid of the sustainable growth rate formula.
AIM at Melanoma applauds bill banning children from using indoor tanning beds
AIM at Melanoma, the largest international foundation dedicated to melanoma research and patient advocacy, applauds Governor Jerry Brown's signing today of Senate Bill 746, which now bans children under 18 from using indoor tanning beds. Tanning beds have been linked to the rapid rise in melanoma rates among 15-39 year olds.
New AI-based tool improves the diagnosis of breast cancer tumors
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed an AI-based tool that improves the diagnosis of breast cancer tumors and the ability to predict the risk of recurrence.
Steps to tackle bed-blocking have led to a big reduction in delayed discharges
Health Secretary John Reid said that the 4,000 beds that have been freed up since the ‘Cash for Change' programme was introduced in 2001 was equivalent to adding eight extra hospitals to the NHS. The scheme provided £300m to local councils to ensure that people leaving hospital would get the care they needed.
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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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