Nursing Homes in Franklin, NC
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 Macon Valley Nursing And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3195 Old Murphy Road, Franklin, North Carolina 28734 Ratings: Phone: (828) 524-7806 |
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Canadian patients have less access to the latest medicines, says report
Canadian patients have less access to the latest medicines when compared to the world's developed countries, concludes a comprehensive new report released today. The Report shows Canada ranks 20th out of 25 OECD countries in public reimbursement of new drug therapies. Canada's grade of 56% is comparable with Iceland, Slovakia and Turkey.
EU ban on labels claiming water helps in dehydration draws reaction
Brussels bureaucrats faced ridicule for banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration. EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact. And now manufacturers of bottled water are forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.
Scientists find novel form of brain plasticity
Scientists have known for years that neurogenesis takes place throughout adulthood in the hippocampus of the mammalian brain. Now Columbia researchers have found that under stressful conditions, neural stem cells in the adult hippocampus can produce not only neurons, but also new stem cells.
Accelera Innovations, Lambert Private Equity sign Investment Agreement to support growth initiatives
Accelera Innovations, Inc. a Chicago-based healthcare software-as-a-service provider (the "Company") today announced it has entered into a Standby Equity Purchase Agreement ("Investment Agreement") with Lambert Private Equity, LLC, (the "Investor").
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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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