Nursing Homes in Shelbyville, KY
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 Masonic Home Of Shelbyville Medicare and Medicaid Location: 711 Frankfort Road, Shelbyville, Kentucky 40066 Ratings: Phone: (502) 633-3486 |
Crestview Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1871 Midland Trail, Shelbyville, Kentucky 40065 Ratings: Phone: (502) 633-2454 |
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Michigan Bills introduced that would require girls to receive HPV vaccine before sixth grade
Michigan Sen. Beverly Hammerstrom (R) last Tuesday introduced two bills (SB 1416, SB 1417) that would require girls in the state entering the sixth grade in the 2007-2008 school year and beyond to have received Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil, the Detroit News reports.
New weapon in the fight against cancer
A cancer diagnosis is not necessarily a death sentence. There are now quite a number of possibilities to treat cancer. In addition to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, so-called radionuclide treatment has also become an important component in the fight against the mutated cells. It involves injecting radioactive elements, so-called nuclides, into the patient's circulatory system.
Vitamin E-rich oils may increase incidence of asthma, says study
A large new Northwestern Medicine- study upends our understanding of vitamin E and ties the increasing consumption of supposedly healthy vitamin E-rich oils - canola, soybean and corn - to the rising incidence of lung inflammation and, possibly, asthma.
Miscarriage and abortion raises likelihood of future low birthweight babies
Women who have miscarried or had an abortion run three times the normal risk of having a subsequent low birthweight baby, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
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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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