Nursing Homes in Watsontown, PA
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 Watsontown Rehabilitation And Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 245 East Eighth Street, Watsontown, Pennsylvania 17777 Ratings: Phone: (570) 538-2561 |
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Effect of family style mealtimes on quality of life, physical performance, and body weight of nursing home residents
Providing a convivial and social environment at mealtimes improves the quality of life of nursing home residents, finds a study published online at the British Medical Journal website.
Federal deadline on state health insurance 'pools' sparks confrontations
States must tell the federal government whether they will help run new insurance pools for high-risk patients by Friday, which could set up political confrontations, The New York Times reports.
IBI to present data on Verisome Liquid Drug Delivery System for cystoid macular edema at ARVO 2010
Icon Bioscience, Inc., (IBI), a privately held biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the development and commercialization of novel ophthalmic pharmaceuticals announced today that it will present an abstract demonstrating the utility of its Verisome™ Liquid Drug Delivery System in cystoid macular edema, at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2010 annual meeting, taking place May 2-6, 2010, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Women who quit smoking during pregnancy will prevent infant deaths
If more women quit smoking before they became pregnant, it would save infant lives, concludes a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Prostate cancer screening recommendations not heeded by 44% men: Survey
81-year-old billionaire Warren Buffett was diagnosed with prostate cancer after having the finding initially detected through a screening blood test to measure a cancer marker called prostate specific antigen or PSA.
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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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