Nursing Homes in Bluffton, IN
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 Bluffton Regional Medical Center Care Center Medicare Location: 303 S Main St, Bluffton, Indiana 46714 Ratings: Phone: (260) 824-3210 |
Christian Care Retirement Community Medicare and Medicaid Location: 720 E Dustman Rd, Bluffton, Indiana 46714 Ratings: Phone: (260) 565-3000 |
River Terrace Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 400 Caylor Blvd, Bluffton, Indiana 46714 Ratings: Phone: (260) 824-8940 |
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Metabolic enzymes in opium poppy are used to produce valuable painkilling drugs
​University of Calgary scientists have discovered metabolic enzymes in the opium poppy that play "widespread roles" in enabling the plant to make painkilling morphine and codeine, and other important compounds.
GAO: Many insurers flout health law's abortion rule
A report by the Government Accountability Office found many examples of insurance plans not complying with the health law's requirement that they separately itemize a charge for coverage of elective abortion on enrollees' bills. The agreement that no federal funds go to pay for elective abortions was the basis of a political compromise that allowed the health law to pass in 2010.
The American Heart Association issues new reference toolkit for healthcare providers
With nearly half of American adults having elevated blood pressure, it's important for everyone to understand that some common habits may affect blood pressure, making the condition more difficult to control.
Symbiomix Therapeutics announces positive results from SYM-1219 Phase 1 clinical program
Symbiomix Therapeutics, a late-stage, privately held biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines for serious women's health infections, today announced results from its Phase 1 clinical program demonstrating that its lead product candidate, SYM-1219, was safe and well tolerated and had predictable pharmacokinetics (PK), and that contraceptive efficacy for birth control pills would not be altered by SYM-1219 administration.
In one unusual circumstance smoking may actually be good for you
An Austrian study has found that smoking cigarettes, a habit that contributes to the development of peripheral artery disease-actually helps arteries stay open following a procedure to repair clogged blood vessels in the legs. The study found that habitual to heavy smokers who continued to smoke after angioplasty had a lower rate of restenosis, or re-narrowing of the arteries, than nonsmokers.
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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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