Nursing Homes in Portland, ME
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 Cedars Nursing Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 630 Ocean Avenue, Portland, Maine 04112 Ratings: Phone: (207) 772-5456 |
Barron Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1145 Brighton Ave, Portland, Maine 04102 Ratings: Phone: (207) 774-2623 |
Seaside Rehab & Health Care Medicare and Medicaid Location: 850 Baxter Boulevard, Portland, Maine 04103 Ratings: Phone: (207) 774-7878 |
St Joseph's Rehabilitation And Residence Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1133 Washington Ave, Portland, Maine 04103 Ratings: Phone: (207) 797-0600 |
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The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York today announced that they have entered into an agreement with New York City to correct conditions of confinement at the Kings County Hospital Center's (KCHC) psychiatric emergency room and psychiatric in-patient units located in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Biomatrica completes $5 million in private financing
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Study shows leptomeningeal metastases more prevalent in NSCLC patients with EGFR mutations
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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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