Nursing Homes in Lancaster, TX
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 Windsor Gardens Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2535 W Pleasant Run, Lancaster, Texas 75146 Ratings: Phone: (972) 228-8029 |
Westridge Nursing And Rehabilitation Lp Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1241 Westridge Ave, Lancaster, Texas 75146 Ratings: Phone: (972) 227-5110 |
Lancaster Ltc Partners Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1515 N Elm St, Lancaster, Texas 75134 Ratings: Phone: (972) 227-6066 |
Millbrook Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1850 W Pleasant Run Rd, Lancaster, Texas 75146 Ratings: Phone: (972) 275-1900 |
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Musculoskeletal ultrasound being increasingly used for diagnosis and management of rheumatic diseases
More rheumatologists are embracing musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) to diagnose and manage rheumatic diseases. In response, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) assembled a task force to investigate and determine best practices for use of MSUS in rheumatology practice. The resulting scenario-based recommendations, which aim to help clinicians understand when it is reasonable to integrate MSUS into their rheumatology practices, now appear online in Arthritis Care & Research.
Berkeley Lab scientists identify why older women are more susceptible to breast cancer
Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have gained more insights into why older women are more susceptible to breast cancer. They found that as women age, the cells responsible for maintaining healthy breast tissue stop responding to their immediate surroundings, including mechanical cues that should prompt them to suppress nearby tumors.
Study shows marathon participation causes temporary injury to kidneys
Researchers at Yale University have found that marathon runners can suffer Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), due to the physical tension they experience while running the race. Although AKI is a temporary injury that heals within a span of two days after the race, questions arise about the long-term impacts of this exhausting task over.
Regence introduces new solution that covers all medications under single medication benefit
Rapid developments in the pharmaceutical industry have led to a steady increase in the use and cost of "specialty" medications to treat chronic conditions such as arthritis and psoriasis.
Scientists identify new mechanism for severe early infant epilepsy
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden have discovered a new explanation for severe early infant epilepsy. Mutations in the gene encoding the protein KCC2 can cause the disease, hereby confirming an earlier theory.
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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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