Nursing Homes in Jennings, LA
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 Jeff Davis Living Center, Llc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1338 North Cutting Avenue, Jennings, Louisiana 70546 Ratings: Phone: (337) 824-3165 |
Camelot Brookside Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3330 Frontage Road, Jennings, Louisiana 70546 Ratings: Phone: (337) 824-2466 |
Southwest Louisiana War Veterans Home Medicare Location: 1610 Evangeline Highway, Jennings, Louisiana 70546 Ratings: Phone: (337) 824-2829 |
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Senior citizens in Nevada to be affected by the recent House bill
A new American Health Care Association analysis of the pending House health reform bill, combined with the impact of a recently-enacted Medicare regulation cutting Medicare-funded nursing home care by $12 billion over 10 years, finds seniors in Nevada requiring nursing and rehabilitative care will face total funding cuts of $186 million over that same time period. Nationally, the study finds, seniors' Medicare cuts will total $44 billion over 10 years, prompting Nevada's long term care community to warn that seniors' care needs are endangered by the House bill, as are the jobs of almost 200 caregivers in Nevada alone.
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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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