Establishing relationships with hospitals may be critical for long-term care facilities facing financial pressures and uncertain futures. One option is to initiate collaborative efforts to develop hospital-based skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Hospitals, under pressure to move patients to less intensive settings and to diversify, are naturally drawn to long-term care as a related business wh...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background The results recent studies transcatheter mitral valve repair proposed a new conceptual framework that categorized regurgitation (MR) into proportionate (propMR) or disproportionate (dispropMR) according to the relationship between effective regurgitant orifice area (EROA) and left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic volume (...

Discrepancy between face word memory was measured with experimental continuous recognition tests and compared with right-left asymmetry of lateral ventricle size, measured with volumetric x-ray computed tomography, in 10 young and in 10 elderly subjects. All were right-handed and healthy. Old subjects differed significantly from young subjects on face but not word memory. Old subjects had signi...