Nursing Homes in Hilo, HI
5 Nursing Homes found. Showing 1 - 5
 Hilo Medical Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1190 Waianuenue Avenue, Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Ratings: Phone: (808) 932-3000 |
Life Care Center Of Hilo Medicare and Medicaid Location: 944 West Kawailani Street, Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Ratings: Phone: (808) 959-9151 |
Hale Anuenue Restorative Care Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1333 Waianuenue Avenue, Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Ratings: Phone: (808) 961-6644 |
Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1180 Waianuenue Avenue, Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Ratings: Phone: (808) 961-1500 |
Legacy Hilo Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 563 Kaumana Drive, Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Ratings: Phone: (808) 498-0184 |
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Noninvasive brain stimulation may curb cravings for appetitive foods
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Positive results from Shire's velaglucerase alfa Phase III study for Type 1 Gaucher disease
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Asthmatics have lower degree of DNA methylation in certain immune cells
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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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