Nursing Homes in Evanston, WY - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Rocky Mountain Care - Evanston
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 475 Yellow Creek Road, Evanston, Wyoming 82930
Ratings: Phone: (307) 789-0726

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Survey shows parents engage in distracting behaviors while driving children

Many parents are putting their precious cargo at risk while driving, according to survey results that will be presented May 5 and 6 at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC.

Encouraging preliminary results from Synta's ganetespib Phase 2 trial against non-small cell lung cancer

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing small molecule drugs to treat severe medical conditions, today announced that encouraging preliminary results of a Phase 2 trial of ganetespib as a single agent in non-small cell lung cancer were presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 11th Annual Targeted Therapies for the Treatment of Lung Cancer Meeting.

Over 80% of hospitalized patients suffer more severe pain than necessary

More than 80% of hospitalized patients suffer more severe pain than necessary. This is the conclusion of Christoph Maier (Bochum University Hospital, Bochum, Germany) and his coauthors in their interim report of the Pain-Free Hospital Project ("Schmerzfreies Krankenhaus"), which appears in the current issue of Deutsches -rzteblatt International. The project, which was initiated in 2003, has the goal of improving pain management in hospitals across Germany.

Study: Startup companies are important source of patents used for developing new medical devices

Startup companies founded by physician entrepreneurs are an important source of patents used in developing innovative new medical devices, suggests a study in the May issue of Medical Care.

Brigham and Women's Hospital study examines sustained inattentional blindness in expert observers

If you were working on something at your computer and a gorilla floated across your computer screen, would you notice it? You would like to think yes, however, research shows that people often miss such events when engaged in a difficult task.

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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