Nursing Homes in Westerly, RI
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 Royal Of Westerly Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 79 Beach Street, Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Ratings: Phone: (401) 596-4925 |
Apple Rehab Watch Hill Medicare and Medicaid Location: 79 Watch Hill Road, Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Ratings: Phone: (401) 596-2664 |
Westerly Health Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 280 High Street, Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Ratings: Phone: (401) 348-0020 |
Apple Rehab Clipper Medicare and Medicaid Location: 161 Post Road, Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 Ratings: Phone: (401) 322-8081 |
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TUM researchers discover new mechanism for regulating programmed cell death
Programmed cell death is a mechanism that causes defective and potentially harmful cells to destroy themselves. It serves a number of purposes in the body, including the prevention of malignant tumor growth. Now, researchers at Technische Universität München have discovered a previously unknown mechanism for regulating programmed cell death.
Combination of cannabinoids and opiates could help reduce chronic pain
A UCSF study suggests patients with chronic pain may experience greater relief if their doctors add cannabinoids - the main ingredient in cannabis or medical marijuana - to an opiates-only treatment. The findings, from a small-scale study, also suggest that a combined therapy could result in reduced opiate dosages.
New strategies developed to increase the adoption of evidence-based practice
Identifying and resolving barriers to the successful implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) helped a hospital make EBP an integrated part of its organizational culture, according to an article in the June issue of Critical Care Nurse (CCN).
Mount Sinai awarded more than $4 million to evaluate anal cancer screening in high-risk women
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been awarded a grant of more than $4 million by the National Cancer Institute for a large-scale study to evaluate anal cancer screening in high-risk women who have been previously diagnosed with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
Researchers identify the missing link between intestinal disease and brain injury in premature infants
Physicians have long known that necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a potentially lethal inflammatory condition that destroys a premature infant's intestinal lining, is often connected to the development of severe brain injury in those infants who survive.
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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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