Nursing Homes in Brainerd, MN
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 Good Samaritan Society - Woodland Medicare and Medicaid Location: 100 Buffalo Hills Lane, Brainerd, Minnesota 56401 Ratings: Phone: (218) 829-1429 |
Good Samaritan Society - Bethany Medicare and Medicaid Location: 804 Wright Street, Brainerd, Minnesota 56401 Ratings: Phone: (218) 829-1407 |
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Healthcare, education and clean energy are top job demands of the future
In the late 1980s, everyone wanted to study business management. Colleges and universities churned out millions of graduates who had watched Michael Douglas in Wall Street and believed they were going to be the next Gordon Gekko. Imagine their surprise when, in the early 1990s, corporate hiring trends shifted to heavily favor technology jobs! Certainly some of these graduates did just fine in the business world, but how many would have been happier and more successful with a computer degree?
Tengion prices $31.4 million through private placement financing
Tengion, Inc., a leader in regenerative medicine, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with certain investors in connection with a PIPE financing transaction pursuant to registration exemptions under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Regular theatre and cinema visits keeps depression away in seniors finds study
A new study has shown that elderly who are regulars at the cinema, theatre or spend time at cultural meets and activities can protect themselves from depression. The study results were published in the latest issue of the journal British Journal of Psychiatry.
Study: Obese women may avoid mammograms because of pain
Obese women may avoid mammograms because of pain and women under 60 may avoid the test because they are too busy, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research published online in the Journal of Women's Health. Funded by the National Cancer Institute, the study was one of the largest to examine why insured women fail to complete mammograms.
Eat more seafood to realize health benefits
The United States Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released today, name seafood among the handful of foods Americans should eat more of because of its heart and brain benefits.
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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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