Nursing Homes in Saint Johnsbury, VT
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 St Johnsbury Health & Rehab Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1248 Hospital Drive, Saint Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 Ratings: Phone: (802) 748-8757 |
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Women experience intimate partner violence, depression after childbirth
Forty percent of women who report depressive symptoms following birth also reported intimate partner violence finds a new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
MTD Products and AHA team up to promote heart health and winter safety
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Approval of Provenge marks beginning of new era in cancer treatment: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Today's announcement that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Provengeâ, a new form of therapy for some prostate cancer patients, marks the beginning of an era in which patients' own immune systems become part of the standard therapeutic arsenal against cancer, say Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators who led a study of the treatment's effectiveness in patients.
Health experts available to discuss national healthcare policy issues
Experts at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the USC School of Pharmacy are available to discuss critical national healthcare and healthcare policy issues.
Lack of caregiver for older men linked to greater risk of nursing home placement after stroke
A Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study found that in men aged 65 and older who survived an ischemic stroke, the lack of an available caregiver was associated with triple the risk of nursing home placement within five years. A similar risk was not seen in women.
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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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