Nursing Homes in Great Bend, KS
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 Azria Health Great Bend Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1560 K 96 Hwy, Great Bend, Kansas 67530 Ratings: Phone: (620) 792-2448 |
Medicalodges Great Bend Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1401 Cherry Lane, Great Bend, Kansas 67530 Ratings: Phone: (620) 792-2165 |
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Declining rates of circumcision in US infant males could add billions to health care costs
A team of disease experts and health economists at Johns Hopkins warns that steadily declining rates of U.S. infant male circumcision could add more than $4.4 billion in avoidable health care costs if rates over the next decade drop to levels now seen in Europe.
Patients given six-month dual antiplatelet therapy have increased heart attack risk
The combined rate of death from any cause, heart attack or stroke within 18 months was not significantly different in patients with acute coronary syndrome who were randomly assigned to receive dual antiplatelet therapy for either six months or at least 12 months after receiving a drug-eluting stent.
People with hemianopia have difficulty detecting pedestrians, study cautions against allowing them to drive
Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists have found that-when tested in a driving simulator-patients with hemianopia (blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes) have significantly more difficulty detecting pedestrians (on their blind side) than normally sighted people. These results, published in the November 2009 issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, fly in the face of some recent on-road studies that have found most people with hemianopia safe to drive.
Study explores role of self-esteem and social adjustment in children and adolescents
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a Group of Greek investigators is reporting on a study exploring the role of self-esteem and social adjustment in children and adolescents.
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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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