Nursing Homes in Clairton, PA
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 Jefferson Hills Healthcare And Rehabilitation Cent Medicare and Medicaid Location: 448 Old Clairton Road, Clairton, Pennsylvania 15025 Ratings: Phone: (412) 653-1128 |
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One in four nursing home residents carries Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major problem in nursing homes with one in four residents carrying the bacteria, a study by Queen's University Belfast and Antrim Area Hospital has found.
Researchers investigate prognostic role of diversity of chromatin compartments in gynecological cancers
A novel marker might contribute to selecting high-risk stage I ovarian carcinoma patients for adjuvant chemotherapy and low-risk endometrial carcinoma patients for less extensive surgery.
IPC to distribute AP's Promescent in US for treatment of premature ejaculation
The Independent Pharmacy Cooperative and Absorption Pharmaceuticals have signed a distribution agreement whereby IPC will make AP's topical treatment for premature ejaculation, Promescent, available to its 4,500+ member pharmacies throughout the United States.
DOD awards grant to develop ‘lab-on-a-chip' device for monitoring patients with severe brain injury
The US Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a $5 million grant to The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and the University of Cincinnati to further develop a "lab-on-a-chip" device used for monitoring patients suffering from severe brain injury.
Brains of babies born very prematurely do not develop as well as those who are carried to full-term
"We found that in very premature babies, a part of the brain doesn't show normal growth after birth, and in fact some parts of the brain didn't change at all from the day the babies were born until they reached what would have been a full-term birth date."
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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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