Nursing Homes in Cheswick, PA
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 Cheswick Rehabilitation And Wellness Center, Llc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3876 Saxonburg Boulevard, Cheswick, Pennsylvania 15024 Ratings: Phone: (412) 767-4998 |
Harmar Village Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 715 Freeport Road, Cheswick, Pennsylvania 15024 Ratings: Phone: (724) 274-3773 |
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Early PTSD treatment for children after a disaster provides lasting health benefits
In 1988, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Armenian city of Spitak. The temblor destroyed cities and is estimated to have killed between 25,000 and 35,000 people, many of whom were schoolchildren.
Researchers obtain sequence of 168 complete genomes of fruit fly
Discovering the relation between genetic variation and observable characteristics of individuals belonging to a species, such as a person's height or the manifestation of a hereditary disease is one of today's challenges in biology. Until now only a small part of the variation of these traits - which biologists name phenotypes - were attributed to genetic variations.
Study evaluates reliability of scale to assess toxicity for patients receiving radiation therapy
The North Shore-LIJ Health System Department of Radiation Medicine presented a novel study to evaluate the reliability of different systems used by caregivers to assess toxicity for patients receiving radiation therapy. The study will be presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology in Atlanta, GA.
New safe, painless diagnostic tool for detecting breast cancer
Mammograms are a safe, effective way to detect the presence of breast cancer in women. But doctors recommend most females should start getting mammograms after the age of 40 in part because the procedure involves small doses of ionizing radiation.
Surgeons have a lower preference for back surgery than family doctors
Surgeons are less likely than family physicians or patients to view surgery as the preferred treatment option for low back pain, according to a study in the January 1 issue of Spine.
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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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