Nursing Homes in New Wilmington, PA
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 Grove At New Wilmington, The Medicare and Medicaid Location: 520 New Castle Street, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania 16142 Ratings: Phone: (724) 946-3511 |
Shenango Presbyterian Seniorcare Medicare and Medicaid Location: 238 South Market Street, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania 16142 Ratings: Phone: (724) 946-3516 |
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Susan Winckler appointed as acting FDA Chief of Staff
Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA), today announced the appointment of Susan C. Winckler, RPh, Esq., as the agency's Acting Chief of Staff. Ms. Winckler is replacing Patrick Ronan who announced his resignation last week after several years of service at the FDA.
Public under-assesses the risk associated with some bacteriological hazards
A recent study shows that food safety experts have little confidence in the public's understanding of food risk issues. The study is published in the Journal of Food Safety.
ER visit rates increase at twice growth rate of population
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Discovery offers fresh perspective on how the brain keeps its balance
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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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