Nursing Homes in Taunton, MA
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 Wedgemere Healthcare Medicare and Medicaid Location: 146 Dean Street, Taunton, Massachusetts 02780 Ratings: Phone: (508) 823-0767 |
Longmeadow Of Taunton Medicare and Medicaid Location: 68 Dean Street - Rear, Taunton, Massachusetts 02780 Ratings: Phone: (508) 824-1467 |
Marian Manor Of Taunton Medicare and Medicaid Location: 33 Summer Street, Taunton, Massachusetts 02780 Ratings: Phone: (508) 822-4885 |
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OECD report finds U.S. pays more by far for health care
The U.S. healthcare system is more effective at delivering high costs than quality care, according to a new study that found first-rate treatment for cancer but insufficient primary care for other ailments. The study, released on Wednesday by the 34-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, said Americans pay more than $7,900 per person for healthcare each year - far more than any other OECD country - but still die earlier than their peers in the industrialized world.
Study shows how specific Salmonella bacteria evolved to cause bloodstream infection
University of Liverpool scientists have exploited the combined power of genomics and epidemiology to understand how a type of Salmonella bacteria evolved to kill hundreds of thousands of immunocompromised people in Africa.
African-American, Latino children increase consumption of 100% fruit juice, study finds
While there has been a steep decline in kids' consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in California, African-American and Latino children may be replacing soda with 100 percent fruit juice while their white peers are not, according to a new study from UC San Francisco.
CAH successfully attest to Stage 2 of Meaningful Use EHR incentive program using MEDITECH
Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center in Odessa, Wash. is the first Critical Access Hospital (CAH) to successfully attest to Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use electronic health record (EHR) incentive program using MEDITECH Information Technology, Inc. administered by Engage, a division of Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS).
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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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