Nursing Homes in Belfast, ME
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 Harbor Hill Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2 Footbridge Rd, Belfast, Maine 04915 Ratings: Phone: (207) 338-5307 |
The Commons At Tall Pines Medicare and Medicaid Location: 34 Martin Lane, Belfast, Maine 04915 Ratings: Phone: (207) 338-4117 |
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Skeptical justices ask tough questions about the insurance mandate
In yesterday's oral arguments, the grilling aimed at the Obama administration's lawyer by the court's conservatives raised the prospect that the law's centerpiece could be overturned.
Revision surgery improves upper limb amputation outcome
Revision surgery can significantly reduce pain and increases prosthesis use in veterans who undergo combat-related major upper-extremity amputation, US research demonstrates.
Study explores effect of child obesity intervention programs on blood pressure
One of the serious health consequences of obesity is elevated blood pressure (BP), a particular problem in children because research has found that high BP in children usually follows them into adulthood, carrying with it a wide range of possible negative consequences.
Study shows possibility of using PET imaging to manage chronic liver diseases
While liver biopsies are powerful and reliable, they are also invasive, painful, limited and subject to complications. These effects may soon be a thing of the past for some patients thanks to new research showing PET imaging with the 18F-FAC radiotracer can be used as a non-invasive substitute. The study is featured in the October issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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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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