Nursing Homes in Skowhegan, ME
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 Cedar Ridge Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 23 Cedar Ridge Drive, Skowhegan, Maine 04976 Ratings: Phone: (207) 474-9686 |
Woodlawn Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 59 West Front St, Skowhegan, Maine 04976 Ratings: Phone: (207) 474-9300 |
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Throughout the history of medicine and science, researchers have frequently discovered evidence of promising ways to improve health outcomes for patients and communities - only to have those findings languish in papers published in scientific journals.
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Transgender man falls pregnant and becomes a natural mother
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Boston Scientific reaches agreement with DOJ related to product advisories issued by its Guidant subsidiary
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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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