Nursing homes increasingly cater to short-term patients (Th


Hatboro, Pa. -- John Smyth needed more than the big flat-screen TV, towel warmers and homelike furniture offered at the Willow Ridge Center to convince him to stay in the nursing home's rehab unit following knee-joint replacement. What sold the 70-year-old retired plumber was the ability to sleep, eat and exercise in space separate from the suburban Philadelphia home's long-term patients -- "the ...

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