Nursing Homes in Spencer, IN
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 Mccormick's Creek Rehabilitation And Healthcare Medicare and Medicaid Location: 210 State Hwy 43, Spencer, Indiana 47460 Ratings: Phone: (812) 829-3444 |
Owen Valley Health Campus Medicare and Medicaid Location: 920 W Hwy 46, Spencer, Indiana 47460 Ratings: Phone: (812) 829-2331 |
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Breast reconstruction after mastectomy offered less often to older women, study finds
A national study from England indicates that older women are often not offered immediate breast reconstruction following a mastectomy, even though guidelines state that surgeons should discuss reconstruction with all suitable patients and that it should be available at the initial surgical operation.
Insurers, employers react to idea of a health law without an individual mandate
Insurers' "worst nightmare" is that the Supreme Court would overturn the health law's insurance requirement but leave the rest of the overhaul intact. Employers are being advised to continue working toward meeting the law's deadlines.
SLU researcher awarded NIH's Cutting-Edge Basic Research Award to solve pain-killer problem
SLU pain researcher Daniela Salvemini has been awarded the NIH's Cutting-Edge Basic Research Award (CEBRA) to solve an alarming problem: pain killers that are capable of quelling terrible pain also carry debilitating side effects and significant risk of addiction.
Research illustrates BAG3 protein's importance in maintaining mature skeletal muscle
Muscle cells that should grow stronger with use instead self-destruct when a protein called BAG3 isn't around, researchers have shown.
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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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