A cuticle infection, also known as a paronychia, is a nail condition that may be gradual or chronic. Regardless of the severity of the diagnosis, prompt and aggressive treatment is necessary to prevent a cuticle infection from advancing into a severe medical condition. A cuticle infection is an infection within the tissues surrounding the nail bed. Infections to the nail bed can occur in many ways. Viruses, bacterium and fungus may begin to infect the soft skin surrounding the nail gradually (as is the case with fungus) or within several days of exposure to an active virus or bacteria.
Originally established in 1987, the hospital is currently. undergoing a $300 million expansion that will transform it into. a full-service, tertiary care medical center in 2012. Major projects in process or recently completed at CMC-Pineville include. a 100,000-square-foot medical office building and a 335,000-square-foot. expansion and renovation that will provide open-heart surgery and. interventional cardiology, a 30-bed Intensive Care Unit, a Blumenthal.
(November 2010) Rush University Medical Center is a 664-bed academic medical center that includes hospital facilities for adults and children. It also includes the Johnston R. Bowman Health Center (a 61-bed rehabilitation facility). It is affiliated with Rush University. Rush is a not-for-profit health care, education and research enterprise comprising Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush Health. Rush University is home to one of the first medical colleges in the midwest and includes one of the nation's top-ranked nursing colleges, as well as graduate programs in allied health, health systems management and biomedical research.