Nursing Homes in Galax, VA
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 Waddell Nursing And Rehab Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 202 Painter St, Galax, Virginia 24333 Ratings: Phone: (276) 236-5164 |
Galax Health And Rehab Medicare and Medicaid Location: 836 Glendale Rd, Galax, Virginia 24333 Ratings: Phone: (276) 236-9991 |
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GEB device effective for nasotracheal intubation
An alternative anesthetic technique can be employed when conventional nasal intubation methods do not work.. The method involves a gum elastic bougie (GEB) device, which is useful for difficult airway management but seldom has been used for nasotracheal intubation.
NCH conducts workshop to teach participants how and when to use EpiPen
Many children with severe allergies carry injectable epinephrine (EpiPens) - syringes filled with epinephrine to delay an allergic reaction - but the EpiPens sometimes require the help of an adult to dispense. School nurses are often the only school officials authorized to handle medications, leaving the educators who are with the children most of the day untrained. According to doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital, this lack of training is exactly what becomes most dangerous for children with severe allergies.
TSRI scientists target obesity-linked protein to prevent weight gain in animal models
Scientists are working to understand the mechanisms that make weight loss so complicated. Exercise burns calories, of course, but scientists are also looking at how the body burns more energy to stay warm in cold temperatures.
Harnessing the evolutionary games played by cancer cells to advance therapies
Despite rapid advances in targeted therapies for cancer, tumors commonly develop resistance to treatment. When resistance emerges, tumor cells continue to grow unchecked, despite all attempts to slow cancer progression.
Sharp refines IT service management strategy to include BMC solutions
Sharp HealthCare is known for leveraging IT to support its culture of quality service, innovation and excellence. But as the industry faces new reforms affecting patient care and management of patient data, Sharp is relying on BMC Software for an integrated approach to maintain its reputation of IT innovation.
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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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