Nursing Homes in Elkins Park, PA
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 Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 265 E. Township Line Road, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 19027 Ratings: Phone: (215) 379-2700 |
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UO researchers to examine effects of climate change on indoor air quality
University of Oregon researchers and industry partners are exploring how indoor home microbial environments change - and what that means to human health - when whole-house weatherization projects are implemented.
AAN's Behavioral Neurology Section Group provides recommendations for improving clinical cognitive testing
Recommendations for improving clinical cognitive testing were reported by the American Academy of Neurology's Behavioral Neurology Section Group, led by Kirk R. Daffner, MD, of Boston, Mass. The Group focused on the Neurobehavioral Status Exam (NBSE), conducting evidence-based reviews of testing used for five domains - attention, language, memory, spatial cognition, and executive function).
Psychiatric drug prevents some of the most serious complications of COVID-19, study finds
Leonard Imbula of the Healthy Mind Lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis holds a bottle of fluvoxamine, a psychiatric drug that has been shown, in a pair of studies conducted on two continents, to be an effective treatment for people sick with COVID-19.
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.
Scientists map three-dimensional structure of protein that causes cystic fibrosis
Scientists at The Rockefeller University have mapped the three-dimensional structure for one of the more notorious disease-causing molecules in the human body: the protein responsible for the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis. And it looks fishy.
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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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