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 Destin Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 195 Mattie M Kelly Blvd, Destin, Florida 32550 Ratings: Phone: (850) 654-4588 |
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Researchers examine role of dairy products in preserving bone and skeletal muscle
Understanding that diets are often built around food groups rather than specific nutrients, researchers from Switzerland, France, and North America decided to examine interactions between four nutrients found in dairy products and their role in preserving bone and skeletal muscle.
State policy developments: Wisconsin's new 'public option,' Iowa's medical marijuana vote, and more
New Hampshire Public Radio: A bill in the state legislature would create an annual public report that details the causes of rising health spending by analyzing now-private information that doctors, hospitals and other health organizations would have to provide to the state's Department of Insurance. The move is partly in response to conflicting narratives: The state's health spending continues to rise, yet hospitals and doctors say they are struggling (Grant, 2/17).
UBMD selects Allscripts EHR solution to help its physicians enhance quality of patient care
Allscripts announced today that UBMD has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record solution to help its 450 physicians enhance the quality of patient care, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery.
Study: Offering flu vaccines at elementary schools could expand vaccination rates, reduce costs
Offering flu vaccines at elementary schools could expand vaccination rates and reduce costs, according to a new study reported in the scientific journal Vaccine by researchers from UC Davis Health System; the Monroe County, New York, Department of Public Health; University of Rochester Medical Center; and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Appeals court restores federal funding of stem cell research
Government financing of human embryonic stem cell research can continue, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision was an important victory for the Obama administration in a legal battle that is far from over.
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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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