Cost differences between freestanding and hospital-based skilled nursing facilities (SNF's) are identified and examined in this article. Although hospital-based and freestanding SNF's have significant differences in terms of location, admissions per bed, percent of Medicare days, occupancy rates, staffing, provisions of rehabilitative services, and patient characteristics, these are insufficien...

Using electron diffraction on freestanding single-walled carbon nanotubes, we have determined the structural indices (n,m) of tubes in the diameter range from 1.4 to 3 nm. On the same freestanding tubes, we have recorded Raman spectra of the tangential modes and the radial breathing mode. For the smaller diameters (1.4-1.7 nm), these measurements confirm previously established radial breathing ...

O October 1, 2013, without a continuing resolution in place to support its budget, the U.S. federal government partially closed. One of many effects of the government shutdown was the defunding of the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program. Fiftyfive freestanding children’s hospitals currently receive CHGME funds. These hospitals train almost 30% of the general ...

Hollow nano-objects have raised interest in applications such as sensing, encapsulation, and drug-release. Here we report on a new class of porous materials, namely inorganic nanotube aerogels that, unlike other aerogels, have a framework consisting of inorganic hollow nanotubes. First we show a preparation method for titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, and aluminum oxide nanotube aerogels based on a...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to document the growth of postacute care and contemporaneous staffing trends in US nursing homes over the decade 2001 to 2010. DESIGN We integrated data from all US nursing homes longitudinally to track annual changes in the levels of postacute care intensity, therapy staffing and direct-care staffing separately for freestanding and hospital-based fac...

The martensitic phase transformation in Ti40.4Ni48Hf11.6 shape memory alloys is leveraged for bi-directional actuation with TiNiHf/SiO2/Si composites. properties of magnetron sputtered films annealed at 635°C – 5 min are influenced by film thickness and the underlying substrate. Decreasing TiNiHf from 21 μm to 110 nm results reduction all characteristic temperatures until a critical reached. Pa...

Electrostatic interactions within a lattice of freestanding rotatable head groups mounted on tripodal molecular platforms.

This study evaluated the expanding role of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in pediatric fracture care based on the only national ambulatory surgery database within the United States. Released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1996 and again in 2006, these reports were used to estimate the volume of outpatient pediatric operative fracture care in the United States over...

Freestanding magnetic Ni nanoparticles are obtained by ?-radiation induced synthesis out of aqueous precursor solutions.