Nursing Homes in Oil City, PA
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 Oakwood Heights Of Presbyterian Seniorcare Medicare and Medicaid Location: 10 Vo Tech Drive, Oil City, Pennsylvania 16301 Ratings: Phone: (814) 676-8686 |
Oil City Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1293 Grandview Road, Oil City, Pennsylvania 16301 Ratings: Phone: (814) 676-8208 |
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Medicaid expansion an unsettled issue for some states
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Genomics researchers study role of protein in metabolic disorders, heart disease
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Cummings School granted U.S. Patent for antibody-based treatment against Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
Researchers at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine have received U.S. patent approval for an antibody-based treatment for Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), a potentially fatal outcome of E. coli poisoning and the leading cause of kidney failure in children.
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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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