Nursing Homes in Verona, PA
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 Seneca Place Medicare and Medicaid Location: 5360 Saltsburg Road, Verona, Pennsylvania 15147 Ratings: Phone: (412) 798-8000 |
Longwood At Oakmont Medicare Location: 500 Route 909, Verona, Pennsylvania 15147 Ratings: Phone: (412) 826-5900 |
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Computer game helps chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients breathe better
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may gain better control over their breathing and breathe more efficiently by using their breath to play a computer game, according to new research.
New type of medical imaging could help doctors spot tumors more quickly
Scientists from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new type of medical imaging that gives doctors a new look at live internal organs.
TGen study reveals genetic origins of breast cancer that spreads to brain
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has uncovered possible genetic origins of breast cancer that spreads to the brain, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.
Aastrom secures US patent for autologous cell therapy product
Aastrom Biosciences, a leading developer of expanded autologous cellular therapies for severe, chronic cardiovascular diseases, today announced that it has been granted a U.S. patent which provides composition of matter protection for its investigational expanded autologous cell therapy product.
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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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