Nursing Homes in Bradford, MA - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Whittier Bradford Transitional Care Unit
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 145 Ward Hill Avenue, Bradford, Massachusetts 01835
Ratings: Phone: (978) 372-8000

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Researchers detect a novel cause of acquired lipodystrophy

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CLL patients receive Biothera's new combination therapy in Phase I/II clinical trial

Patients with earlier stage high-risk Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia recently began receiving a new combination treatment in a Phase I/II clinical trial that researchers believe could result in a more effective therapy for this disease, Biothera announced today.

Saatchi Bill: an interview with Dr. David Collingridge, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Oncology

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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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