Nursing Homes in Tyrone, PA

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Epworth Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 951 Washington Avenue, Tyrone, Pennsylvania 16686
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   Phone: (814) 684-0320

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Medical diagnoses of "diseases of despair" increase in Pennsylvania

Medical diagnoses involving alcohol-related disorders, substance-related disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors – commonly referred to as diseases of despair – increased in Pennsylvania health insurance claims between the years 2007 and 2018, according to researchers from Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Highmark Health Enterprise Analytics.

Study confirms that couples using natural family planning have intercourse just as frequently as couples using other methods

Couples who use fertility awareness-based methods of family planning have sex just as often as couples who use other contraceptive methods - they just time it differently, according to a new Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health study to be published in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Biosocial Science.

Influence of alcohol advertisements on intentions to intervene in sexual assault situations

College students who viewed alcohol advertisements that included objectified images of women were less likely than others to report intentions to intervene in alcohol-facilitated sexual assault situations in a study published in the Journal of Health Communication.

AIDS activists in China protest for better care for those affected by 1990s blood-selling schemes

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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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