Nursing Homes in Mckeesport, PA
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 John J Kane Regional Center-mc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 100 Ninth Street, Mckeesport, Pennsylvania 15132 Ratings: Phone: (412) 675-8620 |
Riverside Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 100 Eighth Avenue, Mckeesport, Pennsylvania 15132 Ratings: Phone: (412) 664-8860 |
Upmc Mckeesport Long Term Care Medicare Location: 1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, Pennsylvania 15132 Ratings: Phone: (412) 664-2984 |
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Adjusting ventilator to keep breath size and lung pressures lower can reduce death from lung injury
Carefully adjusting mechanical ventilator settings in the intensive care unit to pump smaller breaths into very sick lungs can reduce the chances of dying by as much as 8 percent, according to a study by critical care experts at Johns Hopkins. Study participants were evaluated for two years after their acute lung injury.
Daiichi buys Japanese rights to CTL's innovative cardiac regeneration medicine, Heartcel
Cell Therapy Ltd. today announced the granting of the Japan license for its innovative cardiac regeneration medicine, Heartcel™ (immuno-modulatory progenitor [iMP] cells) to Daiichi Sankyo.
White House enlists Magic Johnson, Alonzo Mourning to 'jump start' efforts to urge young people to sign up for insurance coverage
This and other related marketing attempts are meant to spark young people's interest in obtaining health coverage before enrollment ends March 31.
Researchers discover tumor suppressor gene folliculin essential to normal lung function in BHD patients
Researchers at Penn Medicine have discovered that the tumor suppressor gene folliculin (FLCN) is essential to normal lung function in patients with the rare disease Birt-Hogg-Dube (BHD) syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs, skin and kidneys.
Study predicts the spread of COVID-19 in India
Dr. Shinjini Ghosh and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States, have come up with a predictive model that analyzes the spread of COVID-19 infection in India. Their study titled, "Predictive Model with Analysis of the Initial Spread of COVID-19 in India," was released prior to peer review on the preprint server Medrxiv.
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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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