Nursing Homes in Byrdstown, TN
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 Pickett Care And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 129 Hillcrest Drive, Byrdstown, Tennessee 38549 Ratings: Phone: (931) 864-3162 |
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North Bay RNs choose Ontario Nurses' Association as their union
Once again, Registered Nurses with the North Bay Regional Health Centre have overwhelmingly voted to make the Ontario Nurses' Association their union.
Identifying bipolarity through MRI's proves successful in initial results
​What are some of the most troubling numbers in mental health? Six to 10 - the number of years it can take to properly diagnose a mental health condition. Dr. Elizabeth Osuch, a Researcher at Lawson Health Research Institute and a Psychiatrist at London Health Sciences Centre and the Department of Psychiatry at Western University, is helping to end misdiagnosis by looking for a 'biomarker' in the brain that will help diagnose and treat two commonly misdiagnosed disorders.
New large-scale method reveals drug targets
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists have developed a new large-scale method to identify the interactions between proteins that are a major target for therapeutic intervention.
Conflicting evidence on potential benefit, negative outcomes of hip and knee steroid injections
Osteoarthritis of the hip and knee is among the most common joint disorders. A frequently performed treatment for osteoarthritis and other joint related pain syndromes are IACS, yet there is conflicting evidence on their potential benefit and possible negative outcomes following such injections.
Stopping Aspirin may raise heart attack death risk by 60%: Study
The study results revealed that patients with a history of heart disease who stopped taking a low-dose daily aspirin had a 60% increased risk of having a heart attack over the three-year follow-up, compared with patients who continued the daily aspirin, says study researcher Luis A. Garcia Rodriguez, director of the Spanish Center for Pharmacoepidemiologic Research (CEIFE) in Madrid. The study is published in the British Medical Journal.
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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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