Nursing Homes in Pleasant Prairie, WI
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 Grande Prairie Hlth And Rehab Ctr Medicare and Medicaid Location: 10330 Prairie Ridge Blvd, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin 53158 Ratings: Phone: (262) 612-2800 |
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People with MS have much greater risk of dying younger compared to people without MS
New research suggests people with multiple sclerosis (MS) may have double the risk of dying early compared to people without MS, with those younger than 59 at a three times higher risk. The study is published in the May 27, 2015, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
MRI and blood test combination results in improved prostate cancer diagnosis
New research from Karolinska Institutet shows that the blood test Stockholm3 together with magnetic resonance imaging and targeted prostate biopsies may lead to a significant decrease in the number of biopsy procedures and diagnoses of harmless disease.
Former cancer patient says radiation bungle shows flaw in the health system
Assurances from the Australian Medical Association (AMA) that cancer patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital are at a minimal risk from an inadvertent 5 per cent reduction in their prescribed radiation dosage between 2004 to 2006, may reassure some but many former patients will still be worried.
Researchers find high rates of multi-drug resistant pathogen among LA population
Researchers with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health have found high rates of the multi-drug resistant pathogen, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae among the patient population in long-term acute care hospitals compared to general acute care hospitals across the county.
Cyberonics to develop medical devices with cutting edge technology for persons suffering from epilepsy
Cyberonics, Inc. today announced another in a series of collaborations around seizure detection technology aimed at advancing its development of new and more efficacious medical devices for persons suffering from epilepsy.
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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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