Nursing Homes in Mount Ayr, IA
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 Mount Ayr Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1504 East South Street, Mount Ayr, Iowa 50854 Ratings: Phone: (641) 464-3204 |
Clearview Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 406 West Washington, Mount Ayr, Iowa 50854 Ratings: Phone: (641) 464-2240 |
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Gates Foundation blog interviews director of aid effectiveness at Oxfam about new campaign
In a post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Tom Scott, director of global brand and innovation at the foundation, and Gregory Adams, director of aid effectiveness at Oxfam, examine "why a new vision of aid is critical."
Nigeria safely relaunches accelerated yellow fever vaccination campaigns
While combatting multiple public health challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Nigeria, with support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance will safely relaunch an accelerated series of mass preventive vaccination campaigns to protect Nigerians against yellow fever (YF).
Research reveals binge drinking weakens the body's ability to fight off infection
As if a bad hangover wasn't enough of a deterrent, new research has shown how binge drinking weakens the body's ability to fight off infection for at least 24 hours afterwards. The study, published today in the open access journal BMC Immunology, focused on the effect of heavy drinking on toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), a protein that has an important role in immune system activation.
Continuing education lectures on adult glioblastoma to be held at all U.S. healthcare centers
Adult glioblastoma continues to be a difficult disease to treat, so healthcare professionals must have the most up-to-date information regarding optimal methods for diagnostic imaging and treatment of these tumors. Awareness of novel agents in clinical trials is also critical to providing the best care.
Pepscan signs Research and License Agreement with Crucell to devlop novel vaccines
Pepscan Therapeutics, the Dutch biotechnology firm focusing on protein mimicry technology, today announces that it has signed a Research and License Agreement with Crucell Holland B.V. the Dutch developer of vaccines and antibodies.
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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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