Nursing Homes in Burlington, VT
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 Birchwood Terrace Rehab & Healthcare Medicare and Medicaid Location: 43 Starr Farm Rd, Burlington, Vermont 05408 Ratings: Phone: (802) 863-6384 |
Burlington Health & Rehab Medicare and Medicaid Location: 300 Pearl Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401 Ratings: Phone: (802) 658-4200 |
Elderwood At Burlington Medicare and Medicaid Location: 98 Starr Farm Rd, Burlington, Vermont 05408 Ratings: Phone: (802) 658-6717 |
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Placebos work
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Wyss Institute, UMass team up to develop drug-device combination for treating blood clots in stroke patients
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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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