Nursing Homes in Anchorage, AK
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 Providence Transitional Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 910 Compassion Circle, Anchorage, Alaska 99504 Ratings: Phone: (907) 212-9100 |
Prestige Care & Rehab Center Of Anchorage Medicare and Medicaid Location: 9100 Centennial Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99504 Ratings: Phone: (907) 333-8100 |
Providence Extended Care Medicare and Medicaid Location: 920 Compassion Circle, Anchorage, Alaska 99504 Ratings: Phone: (907) 212-9200 |
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Synbal and La Jolla Institute for Immunology collaborate to develop better COVID-19 models
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BARDA awards $27 million contract to Achaogen for antibiotic development
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) today awarded a contract to develop an antibiotic that could be used against possibly two types of bioterrorism as well as common infections that are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
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Nursing Home
A nursing home (also called skilled nursing facility) is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living.A skilled nursing facility (SNF) may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation.
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