Nursing Homes in Marshalltown, IA
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 Southridge Specialty Care Medicare and Medicaid Location: 309 West Merle Hibbs Boulevard, Marshalltown, Iowa 50158 Ratings: Phone: (641) 752-4553 |
Grandview Heights Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 910 East Olive, Marshalltown, Iowa 50158 Ratings: Phone: (641) 752-4581 |
Accura Healthcare Of Marshalltown Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2401 South Second Street, Marshalltown, Iowa 50158 Ratings: Phone: (641) 752-1553 |
Iowa Veterans Home Medicaid Location: 1301 Summit, Marshalltown, Iowa 50158 Ratings: Phone: (641) 752-1501 |
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Peripheral nerve stimulation may help manage neuropathic pain in injured soldiers
An peripheral nerve stimulation technique may be a valuable new approach for relief of severe neuropathic (nerve-related) pain in injured soldiers, reports an article in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society.
New fibrosis classification improves accuracy of diagnosis in Hepatitis C
A new classification for diagnosing fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) has shown to be as accurate as currently used algorithms, but required no further liver biopsy. The study appearing in the January issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, details a method that synchronously combines two fibrosis tests, providing a non-invasive and more precise fibrosis diagnosis.
Electronic cigarettes reduce smoking habits
Electronic cigarettes offer smokers a realistic way to kick their tobacco smoking addiction. In a new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, scientists at KU Leuven report that e-cigarettes successfully reduced cravings for tobacco cigarettes, with only minimal side effects.
Penn study sheds new light on biology of fatty liver disease
A new appreciation for the interplay between two cell nucleus proteins that lead both intertwined and separate lives is helping researchers better understand fatty liver disease, according to a new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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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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