Nursing Homes in Amherst, MA
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 Center For Extended Care At Amherst Medicare and Medicaid Location: 150 University Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 Ratings: Phone: (413) 256-8185 |
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Aptamer-targeted nanoparticles collect and detect cancer cells
Using magnetic and fluorescent nanoparticles capable of binding tightly to molecules found only on the surface of cancer cells, a team of investigators at the University of Florida has developed a method for collecting and detecting multiple cancer cells from biological samples.
Good Start Genetics $18 million Series A financing round co-led by Safeguard Scientifics
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., a holding company that builds value in growth-stage life sciences and technology companies, today announced that it has co-led a $18 million Series A financing round for Good Start Genetics, Inc. with OrbiMed Advisors, LLC and SV Life Sciences Advisers LLP.
Monash researchers provide insight into intricate peptide changes affecting immune system
Human leukocyte antigen molecules are a group of proteins that help the immune system identify foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria and which impact a wide variety of clinical outcomes including infection and cancer.
Connecting with nature supports multiple areas of young people's wellbeing, finds study
The review, published in the British Ecological Society Journal People and Nature, is the first to focus on nature connection in children and adolescents.
MedPAC home care cuts can harm home health agencies and impact senior Americans, says NAHC
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) once again has used a flawed data analysis to recommend cuts that would severely damage the ability of thousands of home health care agencies to provide valuable services to the most vulnerable of Americans, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) said today.
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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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