Nursing Homes in Kingfisher, OK
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 Cimarron Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 905 Beall Road, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 73750 Ratings: Phone: (405) 375-6857 |
First Shamrock Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1415 South Main Street, Kingfisher, Oklahoma 73750 Ratings: Phone: (405) 375-3157 |
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‘Vertical integration' of healthcare leads to fewer hospital readmissions
"Vertical integration" of healthcare-; closer coordination of care between primary care and hospitals-; leads to a lower rate of hospital readmissions, suggests an experience from Portugal reported in the May issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.
Promising way to prevent disparities in colorectal cancer screening
People living in poverty are less likely to be screened regularly for colorectal cancer-and more likely to develop the disease and die from it. How to end these disparities-and raise screening rates, lower disease rates, and prevent deaths? A promising way is to mail fecal immunochemical tests (a newer kind of stool test) to populations, Beverly B. Green, MD, MPH, and Gloria D. Coronado, PhD, wrote in the June 17 JAMA Internal Medicine.
COVID-19 vaccine antibodies inversely related to BMI in obese men, but not women
A new study discusses the role of obesity in COVID-19 and its role in antibody-mediated immune responses to the COVID-19 vaccine.
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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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