Nursing Homes in Scarborough, ME
3 Nursing Homes found. Showing 1 - 3
 Pine Point Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 67 Pine Point Rd, Scarborough, Maine 04074 Ratings: Phone: (207) 883-2468 |
Maine Veterans Home - Scarborough Medicare and Medicaid Location: 290 Us Rt 1, Scarborough, Maine 04074 Ratings: Phone: (207) 883-7184 |
Piper Shores Medicare and Medicaid Location: 15 Piper Road, Scarborough, Maine 04074 Ratings: Phone: (207) 883-8700 |
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New computational model could forecast cholera outbreaks
Just as the rainy season is driving a new surge of cholera cases in Haiti, a new computational model could forecast where outbreaks are likely to occur.
Hospitalizations and associated costs with peripheral artery disease increase as condition progresses
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a progressive and costly disease, but remains under-diagnosed and under treated. While current PAD treatments are effective at clearing artery blockages in the lower leg, high recurrence rates and the subsequent need for repeat procedures are costly. Even after initial procedures to clear blockages in leg arteries, hospitalizations and associated costs in patients with peripheral artery disease increase as the condition progresses, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.
Experimental drug that targets macrophages decreases cancer's growth
An experimental drug that targets macrophages, a type of immune cells, in the microenvironment surrounding the lethal brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme decreased the cancer's growth and extended survival of laboratory mice with the cancer, scientists will report on Tuesday Dec. 17, at the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting in New Orleans.
Supportive environment and intensive observation can prevent suicides among mental health patients
Between 1997 and 2006, 38% of out-of-clinic suicides by mental health patients were carried out by people absent without leave from the hospital. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry suggest that measures to improve the ward environment or prevent patients from leaving psychiatric wards without staff agreement could avoid up to 50 suicide deaths every year.
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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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