The second: Two 10-bed nursing homes that have been built in the midst of a middle-class subdivision, as fully integrated into the neighborhood as the private homes that surround it.

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He ended up on Medicaid, in a 3 bed room in a mediocre nursing home.

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If you have a loved one in a hospital or a nursing-home bed that has a bedrail, check for a gap between the mattress, the bed frame and the bedrail, Miles says.

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Back in the 1850s Florence Nightingale was complaining about the presence of bed sores, saying they represented a failure of nursing.

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Once he arrived there, Ryan LeCompte spent most of his time slumped on his bed, like a frail 90-year-old in a nursing home.

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It is hoped the availability of 400 additional acute care hospital beds and 600 extra beds in nursing and residential homes will ease the problem of "bed blocking".

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"I was awake and I heard this boom and it shook my bed, " said Betty Steel, who lives in a retirement village adjacent to the nursing home.

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