Nursing Homes in Lexington, SC
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 L.m.c.- Extended Care Medicare and Medicaid Location: 815 Old Cherokee Road, Lexington, South Carolina 29072 Ratings: Phone: (803) 359-5181 |
Presbyterian Home Of South Carolina-columbia Medicare and Medicaid Location: 700 Davega Drive, Lexington, South Carolina 29073 Ratings: Phone: (803) 796-8700 |
Wellmore Of Lexington, Llc Medicare Location: 200 Wellmore Drive, Lexington, South Carolina 29072 Ratings: Phone: (803) 520-1200 |
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Retail health clinics best used as backup alternative to patient's primary care physician, ACP says
The American College of Physicians today said that retail health clinics - now commonly present in drugstores and/or big box retailers - are best used as a backup alternative to a patient's primary care physician for the diagnosis and treatment of episodic minor illnesses.
mHealth programs must measure health outcomes
"Since a lot of health revolves around information, public health experts had high expectations for the mobile phone," author and columnist Tina Rosenberg writes in the New York Times' "Opinionator" blog, adding, "But roughly a decade after the start of mHealth, as the mobile health field has come to be known, these expectations are far from being met.
46% of respondents to online poll desire to work fewer hours for childcare reasons
Forty-six percent of respondents to the latest online poll conducted by LifeCare, Inc. indicated that they like their current job but desire to work fewer hours for childcare reasons, while 22 percent would like to quit work altogether for childcare-related reasons.
Heading off the next pandemic
As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it's expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging infectious diseases are already focused on preventing the next one.
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Nursing Home
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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