Nursing Homes in Carbondale, PA
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 Carbondale Nursing And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 10 Hart Place, Carbondale, Pennsylvania 18407 Ratings: Phone: (570) 282-1020 |
Aventura At Creekside Medicare and Medicaid Location: 45 North Scott Street, Carbondale, Pennsylvania 18407 Ratings: Phone: (570) 282-1099 |
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Californians who lose jobs find health care safety net badly frayed
In this article for Kaiser Health News, Janet Wilson focuses on California and reports on how the safety net is fraying as economic woes take their toll on state budgets. "With a nip here and a slash there, California's budget crisis is now affecting health care for millions of residents, from wealthy Orange County to the struggling city of Oakland.
Risk of obstetric intervention lower for women who intended home births
In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting -, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that indicate that the risk of obstetric intervention is lower for women who deliver or intend to deliver outside of hospitals, but there are some higher risks for newborns intended for home births compared to hospital births.
Dr. Reddy's introduces generic Geodon in the U.S.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories announced today that it has launched Ziprasidone Hydrochloride Capsules, a bioequivalent generic version of Geodon in the US market on March 2, 2012 following the approval by the United States Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) of Dr. Reddy's ANDA for Ziprasidone Hydrochloride Capsules.
Cardiologists receive K23 research grant from NIH
Brian H. Annex, M.D., chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System, says he feels like the coach of a championship team. "Going three for three is truly extraordinary," he says with a mixture of pride and awe in his voice.
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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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