Nursing Homes in Mineral Wells, TX
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 Mineral Wells Nursing & Rehabilitation Medicare and Medicaid Location: 316 Sw 25th Ave, Mineral Wells, Texas 76067 Ratings: Phone: (940) 325-1358 |
Palo Pinto Nursing Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 200 Southwest 25th Ave, Mineral Wells, Texas 76067 Ratings: Phone: (940) 325-7813 |
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Study: Medicare Advantage Plans with perks like gym memberships attract healthier seniors
A new study, which was published by the New England Journal of Medicine, found 35.3 percent of new enrollees in a fitness membership benefit plan reported "excellent" or "very good" health, compared with 29.1 percent in the group without the gym membership benefit.
Cardiac clot-busting drug decreases mortality in hemorrhagic stroke patients
Reporting on the results of a phase III international clinical trial, Johns Hopkins Medicine physicians say use of a cardiac clot-busting drug to treat strokes that cause brain bleeding safely decreased the death rate in patients by 10 percent, compared to a control group receiving saline.
FDA approves XenoPort, GSK's Horizant ER tablets for management of PHN
GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) and XenoPort, Inc. announced today that the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Horizant (gabapentin enacarbil) Extended-Release Tablets for the management of postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) in adults.
Report examines G8's $22B food security pledge, highlights need for funding delivery
A report from the anti-poverty group ActionAid finds that less than one-third of the $22 billion that was pledged to improve food security during a 2009 G8 meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, is from new funding sources, the U.K. Press Association reports (6/18).
Liverpool Care Pathway provides little clinical benefit for dying cancer patients
The first randomised trial to test the effectiveness of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) programme, developed and implemented widely to support patients as they near death, has found little clinical benefit compared with standard care for cancer patients dying in hospital.
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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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