Nursing Homes in Marienville, PA
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 Snyder Memorial Health Care Ce Medicare and Medicaid Location: 156 Snyder Memorial Rd, Marienville, Pennsylvania 16239 Ratings: Phone: (814) 927-6670 |
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Insurers post strong earnings, but investors wary of health law rules
Insurers reported high earnings Wednesday, but investors remain worried about the possible effects of health overhaul-related regulations. The Associated Press reports that Aetna's "third-quarter net income jumped 53 percent on lower benefits and expenses.
Longer looks: Life of a Medicare demo project; Broken hearts; AIDS funding
Today's Medicare demonstration project might determine how physicians interact with the program tomorrow, so naturally such projects generate a lot of buzz in the health care community. Lately, some of that buzz has been about how demos might provide part of the solution for Medicare's payment problems.
Oysters play important role in persistence and transmission of norovirus
Oysters not only transmit human norovirus; they also serve as a major reservoir for these pathogens, according to research published August 28 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. "More than 80 percent of human norovirus genotypes were detected in oyster samples or oyster-related outbreaks," said corresponding author Yongjie Wang, PhD.
Study shows structural impact of membrane lipids on medically relevant serotonin transporters
Neurotransmitter transporters are some of the most popular transport proteins in research as they play a major role in the processing of signals in the brain. A joint study by TU Wien and the Medical University of Vienna has now successfully demonstrated for the first time the structural impact of membrane lipids on medically relevant serotonin transporters.
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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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