Nursing Homes in Gardnerville, NV
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 Gardnerville Health & Rehab Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1573 Muller Pkwy, Gardnerville, Nevada 89410 Ratings: Phone: (775) 782-6620 |
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Penn researchers develop variant of mu opioid painkiller receptor to overcome side effects
Opioids, such as morphine, are still the most effective class of painkillers, but they come with unwanted side effects and can also be addictive and deadly at high doses. Designing new pain-killing drugs of this type involves testing them on their corresponding receptors, but access to meaningful quantities of these receptors that can work in experimental conditions has always been a limiting factor.
New set of strategies could improve U.S. health care system for vulnerable populations
A new set of strategies released today by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System could dramatically improve how the U.S. health care system serves vulnerable populations-those in the U.S. who are uninsured, low-income, or members of racial and ethnic minority groups.
Study: Only one third of MSM can easily access HIV services
A large-scale study of gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), conducted by the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF), indicates that only one third of MSM can easily access condoms, lubricant, HIV testing, and HIV treatment.
SunLink closes $9,975,000 loan for Trace Regional Hospital in Houston
SunLink Health Systems, Inc. today announced that it closed a $9,975,000 loan for its Trace Regional Hospital in Houston, MS. Approximately $1,475,000 of the loan proceeds will be used to make improvements to the hospital and its medical office building, as well as for working capital and costs.
FAU pre-medical student and surgeon work together on revolutionary procedure alternative to radical mastectomy
Elizabeth Hopkins, an aspiring physician and pre-medical student in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University, has spent more than 640 hours shadowing Hilton Becker, M.D., a local plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and an affiliate professor in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. Together, with Jeffrey Lind II, M.D., they authored a publication in the current issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal, which describes a revolutionary procedure developed by Becker that is an alternative to radical mastectomy.
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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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