Nursing Homes in Albany, OR
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 Timberview Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1023 6th Ave Sw, Albany, Oregon 97321 Ratings: Phone: (541) 926-8664 |
Mennonite Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 5353 Columbus Street Se, Albany, Oregon 97321 Ratings: Phone: (541) 928-7232 |
Regency Albany Medicare and Medicaid Location: 805 19th Avenue Se, Albany, Oregon 97321 Ratings: Phone: (541) 926-4741 |
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Feds outline what insurers must cover
The final rule on essential health benefits, issued yesterday, defines what must be covered in health plans sold in online marketplaces beginning this fall, including prescription benefits and mental health services, and prohibits discrimination based on age or pre-existing medical conditions.
Warning labels on high-risk drugs ignored by doctors
In a survey of approximately 930,000 ambulatory care patients, researchers from the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care) and colleagues found that 42 percent received prescriptions for drugs with Black Box Warnings (BBW), the Food and Drug Administration's strongest label for high-risk medication.
New technique reveals extracellular matrix structure of organs and tumors
A world of details revealed?Cells which are organized together to form tissues rely on the extracellular matrix as a foundation for attachment, to arrange themselves properly and to sense how to behave when their environment changes.
Tarceva should be tested as front-line therapy for older lung cancer patients
The tyrosine kinase inhibitor erlotinib (Tarceva) showed encouraging activity with relatively tolerable side effects in elderly, previously untreated patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), reports a team led by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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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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