Nursing Homes in Natchitoches, LA
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 Courtyard Of Natchitoches Medicare and Medicaid Location: 708 Keyser Avenue, Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457 Ratings: Phone: (318) 214-4361 |
Natchitoches Nursing And Rehabilitation Center,llc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 750 Keyser Avenue, Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457 Ratings: Phone: (318) 352-8779 |
Natchitoches Community Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 720 Keyser Avenue, Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457 Ratings: Phone: (318) 352-8296 |
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IRS will face difficulties in collecting health law penalties
When Congress passed the health law in 2010, it also banned the Internal Revenue Service from using its regular enforcement techniques.
Health reform law update: State lawsuits, implementation efforts attract attention
Today, 20 states and the National Federation of Independent Business are planning "to file their response to the government's attempt to dismiss their lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The Justice Department in June asked a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit, saying the U.S. District Court in Pensacola lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over some of the lawsuit's claims. ... A key issue raised by their lawsuit is whether the federal government can require individuals to purchase health care insurance and fine those who don't" (Kay, 8/6).
Court rules against gene patents
The New York Times: A judicial ruling that "threw out parts of two gene patents and called into question thousands more" has biotechnology executives hastening "to reassure their investors that the ruling would not necessarily undermine their businesses, at least in the short run. But the executives themselves were struggling on Tuesday to figure out what the long-term impact would be."
CNIO and HKUST researchers identify how some gliomas acquire chemoresistance
A team led by Massimo Squatrito, Head of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation Brain Tumour Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, have made important findings of how some gliomas can acquire chemoresistance.
UNMC's ART injectables can successfully treat HIV infection
This has been a good week for breakthroughs in HIV/AIDS. Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration approved a daily pill, Truvada, which reduces the risk of HIV infection. Today, a University of Nebraska Medical Center research team's progress toward developing weekly or twice-monthly injectable antiretroviral therapy (ART) nanomedicines for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection will be highlighted as the cover story in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
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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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