Nursing Homes in Lake Oswego, OR - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Pearl At Kruse Way, The
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 4550 Carman Drive, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035
Ratings: Phone: (503) 675-6055

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Biodel seeks FDA marketing approval for VIAject

Biodel Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review the company's new drug application (NDA) seeking approval to market VIAject® for the treatment of diabetes. VIAject® is Biodel's proprietary formulation of recombinant human insulin that is designed to be absorbed into the blood faster than currently marketed rapid-acting insulin analogs.

Opinion pieces, editorial respond to nomination of Jim Yong Kim to lead World Bank

On Friday, March 23, President Obama nominated Jim Yong Kim to be the next president of the World Bank. The following is a summary of several opinion pieces and an editorial published in response to his nomination.

"Our request for information gets denied by Governor's office": AWF Executive Director Brian Johnson

Last week, the Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) called on Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson (D) to release financial documents and correspondence surrounding his Departments using taxpayer money and state resources to collect healthcare provider names and addresses for the Service Employee International Union (SEIU).

Tool helps determine who is at high risk of death after prostate cancer recurrence following surgery

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and The Brady Urological Institute have identified three risk factors and developed a simple reference tool that doctors can use to determine who is at high risk of death after prostate cancer recurrence following surgery.

Women at highest risk for heart failure during postpartum period, study finds

Heart failure is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and death in the U.S. - with the rate of pregnancy-related deaths more than doubling between 1987 and 2011. Even so, much about heart failure-related hospitalizations before, during and after delivery is unknown.

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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