Nursing Homes in North Kingstown, RI
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 Scalabrini Villa Medicare and Medicaid Location: 860 North Quidesset Road, North Kingstown, Rhode Island 02852 Ratings: Phone: (401) 884-1802 |
South County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 740 Oak Hill Road, North Kingstown, Rhode Island 02852 Ratings: Phone: (401) 294-4545 |
Roberts Health Centre Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 25 Roberts Way, North Kingstown, Rhode Island 02852 Ratings: Phone: (401) 294-3587 |
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Scientists discover fundamental mechanism behind toxic protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases
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Antibody kinetics after natural SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination in Hispanic/Latino population
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Surgeons not including radiation oncologists early enough in treatment decision-making processes
Surgeons are not always including radiation oncologists early enough in a patient's treatment decision-making process, leaving some patients uninformed of all of their treatment options and potentially leading to more mastectomies over breast-conserving therapy, according to a study in the April issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
Health watch: When you eat just as vital to what you eat
When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver—the body's metabolic clearinghouse—is mostly controlled by food intake and not by the body's circadian clock as conventional wisdom had it.
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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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