Nursing Homes in Lexington, MA
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 Pine Knoll Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 30 Watertown Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 Ratings: Phone: (781) 862-8151 |
Care One At Lexington Medicare and Medicaid Location: 178 Lowell Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 Ratings: Phone: (781) 862-7400 |
Brookhaven At Lexington Medicare Location: 1010 Waltham Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02421 Ratings: Phone: (781) 863-9660 |
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Patients with diabetes mellitus have worse long-term outcomes following CABG surgery
Patients with diabetes mellitus have worse long-term outcomes and higher associated costs following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery than patients without diabetes, according to a study in the June 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
What is the frequency of COVID testing to prevent Delta variant transmission?
In a new study published on the medRxiv* preprint server, scientists have used available data on the Delta variant's viral load to infer its infectiousness and, subsequently, estimate the reduction in its transmission brought about by surveillance testing. The testing, done at different frequencies, was performed on a susceptible population. The cases of both the original Wuhan strain and the Delta variant were considered.
New technologies could bring innovative sensors, devices for 'lab-on-a-chip' applications
Researchers are developing new technologies that combine a laser and electric fields to manipulate fluids and tiny particles such as bacteria, viruses and DNA for a range of potential applications, from drug manufacturing to food safety.
Financial incentives offered to help pregnant women quit smoking are highly cost-effective: Study
The scientific journal Addiction has today published the first cost-effectiveness analysis of financial incentives to help pregnant women stop smoking. The report found that financial incentives are highly cost-effective, with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of £482 ($734) per quality-adjusted life year (QALY), which is well below recommended thresholds in high income countries.
Research round-up: Highlights from recent releases
American Health Care Association (AHCA): State-by-State Medicare Cuts to Nursing Homes - "A new [AHCA] analysis of the pending House health reform bill [HR 3200], combined with the impact of a recently-enacted Medicare regulation cutting Medicare-funded nursing home care by $12 billion over ten years, finds seniors in fifteen states requiring nursing and rehabilitative care will face total funding cuts in excess of $1 billion over that same time period," according to an AHCA description of the study. "The assessment was based on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of both HR 3200 and the recent CMS funding rule, along with Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) utilization data." A breakdown of each of the 15 states facing ten-year billion dollar cuts to Medicare-funded nursing homes is available online (8/20).
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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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