Nursing Homes in East Orange, NJ
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 New Grove Manor Medicare and Medicaid Location: 101 North Grove Street, East Orange, New Jersey 07017 Ratings: Phone: (973) 672-1700 |
Windsor Gardens Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 140 Park Ave, East Orange, New Jersey 07017 Ratings: Phone: (973) 677-1500 |
Park Crescent Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 480 Parkway Drive, East Orange, New Jersey 07017 Ratings: Phone: (973) 674-2700 |
Brookhaven Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 120 Park End Place, East Orange, New Jersey 07018 Ratings: Phone: (973) 676-6221 |
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Hospital midwife inadvertently spreads whooping cough to up to 170 people
A Middlemore Hospital midwife could have infected up to 170 people with whooping cough. If passed onto babies or women in the last three months of pregnancy, the disease can lead to severe illness or even death. Whooping cough is a highly infectious disease caused by bacteria which is easily spread through coughing and sneezing, much like the common cold. Also known as pertussis, it is distinguishable by a "whooping" sound at the end of coughing attacks.
Study finds huge shortfall in use of home-based medical care by frail seniors
There is a tremendous disparity between the need for home-based medical care and the number of frail seniors actually receiving it, a new study finds. In many rural areas, the problem is so great that the researchers label it "remarkable."
Calls for cash and fogging to curb spread of dengue fever
As the Dengue fever outbreak in northern Queensland continues to claim new victims on a daily basis, many are calling for more funding to control the spread of the disease with some suggesting the only answer will be a fogging campaign.
Accumetrics signs a distribution agreement with Grifols for its VerifyNow System in Spain, Portugal and Chile
Accumetrics, Inc. has announced the signing of a new exclusive distribution agreement for its VerifyNow(R) System in Spain, Portugal and Chile with Grifols S.A.. This distribution agreement will continue to expand Accumetrics' reach in both scope and geography, and add to the growing numbers of countries where physicians have access to the VerifyNow System.
Study identifies touch-activated molecule in skin cells
In a study published in the April 6 online edition of the journal Nature, a team of Columbia University Medical Center researchers led by Ellen Lumpkin, PhD, associate professor of somatosensory biology, solve an age-old mystery of touch: how cells just beneath the skin surface enable us to feel fine details and textures.
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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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