Nursing Homes in Anoka, MN
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 Anoka Rehabilitation And Living Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3000 4th Avenue, Anoka, Minnesota 55303 Ratings: Phone: (763) 528-6400 |
The Estates At Twin Rivers Llc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 305 Fremont Street, Anoka, Minnesota 55303 Ratings: Phone: (763) 421-5660 |
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Poll finds health industry 'not adequately prepared' to protect patients' digital records
Reuters reports on a new poll of health executives that indicates that the industry is not adequately prepared to protect patients' digital health records. Still, according to the Boston Globe, Dr. David Blumenthal, offered a positive view of medical technology in a Wednesday night speech, saying that electronic medical records made him a better doctor.
T helper cells and depletion in HIV
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Health law, Medicare both hot issues in House and Senate races
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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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