Nursing Homes in Center Point, LA
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 Oak Haven Community Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1515 Highway 107, Center Point, Louisiana 71323 Ratings: Phone: (318) 253-4601 |
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Algorithm based on ‘first impressions' of immune cells may help predict onset of diseases
First impressions are important – they can set the stage for the entire course of a relationship. The same is true for the impressions the cells of our immune system form when they first meet a new bacterium.
Experimental MERS-CoV vaccine shows promise in monkeys and camels
National Institutes of Health scientists and colleagues report that an experimental vaccine given six weeks before exposure to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) fully protects rhesus macaques from disease. The vaccine also generated potentially protective MERS-CoV antibodies in blood drawn from vaccinated camels.
We could soon be curing our athlete's foot with alfalfa
We could be soon be curing our athlete's foot with a common type of cattle feed, according to research reported today at the British Pharmaceutical Conference.
Reps. Price, Baldwin urge passage of bill that would encourage State health coverage expansion proposals
Reps. Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) on Wednesday at a joint event by the Brookings Institution and Heritage Foundation encouraged lawmakers to back a bill (HR 5864) that would "allow states to act as laboratories where lawmakers could test methods to reduce the number of uninsured Americans," CQ HealthBeat reports.
San Francisco judge has slammed the new Bush legislation on abortions as unconstitutional
US federal Judge Phyllis Hamilton has slammed the new Bush legislation on abortions as unconstitutional "This court concludes that the act is unconstitutional because it poses an undue burden on a woman's ability to choose a second trimester abortion; is unconstitutionally vague; and requires a health exception,".
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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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