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But nursing-homes are increasingly concentrating on patients coming off hospital stays and therefore eligible for Medicare benefits or private insurance, says Michael Wiederhorn,
To Be Old, Frail 2008
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The more free beds for consumptives that are endowed in well-equipped and well-run sanatoria and nursing-homes, the more adequately the families of the tuberculous are supported, so that the sick are not dissuaded from going into hospital out of concern for their relatives, and the more social welfare centres are set up, the more rapidly will tuberculosis decrease in importance as a wide-spread infectious disease.
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I always do in November, and go into one of your nursing-homes.
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A new batch of telegrams went out, to hospitals and nursing-homes in France, Belgium, Germany, and Holland.
Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942
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So urgent is it that I think one may safely say the amount of insanity due to the pressure of daily life is increasing; nursing-homes have sprung up for the special purpose of treating such cases; and doctors are starting special courses of tuition in the art -- now becoming very important -- of systematically doing nothing!
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They nurse the sick in their own homes, and also receive them in the hospitals and nursing-homes attached to their convents.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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He had spent the interval entirely in sanatoria and nursing-homes, except for a few months at
Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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So urgent is it that I think one may safely say the amount of insanity due to the pressure of daily life is increasing; nursing-homes have sprung up for the special purpose of treating such cases; and doctors are starting special courses of tuition in the art -- now becoming very important -- of systematically doing nothing!
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886
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