Nursing Homes in Ripon, CA
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 Bethany Home Society San Joaquin County Medicare and Medicaid Location: 930 West Main Street, Ripon, California 95366 Ratings: Phone: (209) 599-4221 |
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Scientists working together to help parents motivate children to increase calcium intake
Scientists from 11 land-grant institutions and Brigham Young University are working together to help parents motivate children to boost calcium intake to strengthen bones and prevent bone fractures from occurring later in life.
New clinical trial to test surgery specifically for Type 2 diabetes
A new clinical trial at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is among the first to test surgery specifically for Type 2 diabetes. The aim of the study is to understand whether surgery can control diabetes, as well or even better than the best medical treatment available today. This is the first study of its kind open to patients who are overweight or mildly obese.
Bedfont Scientific's new Smokerlyzer offers quick and non-invasive method to measure foetal CO levels
The piCObaby Smokerlyzer from Bedfont Scientific Ltd.
UK tops the list of countries at extreme risk to the spread of swine flu
A Warwick Business School professor and one of the founders of global risks specialist, Maplecroft, has released three new maps and indices revealing the countries most at risk from an influenza pandemic.
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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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