Nursing Homes in Farmington, ME
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 Sandy River Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 119 Livermore Falls Rd, Farmington, Maine 04938 Ratings: Phone: (207) 778-6591 |
Edgewood Rehab & Living Ctr Medicare and Medicaid Location: 221 Fairbanks Rd, Farmington, Maine 04938 Ratings: Phone: (207) 778-3386 |
Orchard Park Rehab & Living Medicare and Medicaid Location: 107 Orchard St, Farmington, Maine 04938 Ratings: Phone: (207) 778-4416 |
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New treatment model to incorporate systematic depression screening at primary care visits
A treatment model designed to accommodate the beliefs and concerns of Chinese immigrants appears to significantly improve the recognition and treatment of major depression in this typically underserved group
Chemotherapy during pregnancy for cancer does not necessarily harm the baby: Study
When a pregnant woman is diagnosed with cancer, she and her family and doctors are faced with difficult decisions about her health and that of her unborn child. It is known that giving chemotherapy in the first 12 weeks, when the baby's organs are still forming, raises the chances of birth defects. Postponing the treatment, however, could allow the cancer to spread. Over the last decade, doctors have been more willing to use chemotherapy after the first trimester, but there have been worries that the child's brain and heart could suffer damage.
Helicos Genetic Analysis System to be installed at the Leiden Genome Technology Center
Helicos BioSciences Corporation, today announced the sale of a Helicos® Genetic Analysis System to a collaborative Dutch research group led by the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), further including the medical centers of Amsterdam (AMC) Groningen (UMCG) and Rotterdam (Erasmus MC) and funded by a grant from NWO, the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research.
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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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