Nursing Homes in Buffalo, MN
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 Park View Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 200 Park Lane, Buffalo, Minnesota 55313 Ratings: Phone: (763) 951-7825 |
Lake Ridge Care Center Of Buffalo Medicare and Medicaid Location: 310 Lake Boulevard, Buffalo, Minnesota 55313 Ratings: Phone: (763) 682-1434 |
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Toxic or hazardous chemicals found in top-selling laundry products and air fresheners
A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals.
NEA Itching for a Cure 5K Walk to take place on April 28
The National Eczema Association (NEA) is proud to announce the FIRST ever walk for eczema: Itching for a Cure. The NEA Itching for a Cure 5K Walk will take place Saturday, April 28, 2012, in Asheville, North Carolina, on the University of North Carolina-Asheville campus.
Medworxx announces addition of York Central Hospital
Medworxx Inc., a leader in clinical patient flow, compliance and education solutions, today announces the addition of York Central Hospital in Richmond Hill, ON, to the Medworxx Patient Flow community, licensing 370 beds at the hospital. York Central is located in one of Canada's fastest growing communities, and now joins the fold of Medworxx Patient Flow clients representing 38% of acute-care beds in Ontario, and 30% nationwide.
Scientists identify new targets to develop treatment for HD
Scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research have discovered that a particular family of enzymes are involved in the breakdown of proteins that modify the production of toxic fragments that lead to the pathology of Huntington's disease. These enzymes, matrix metalloproteinases, provide new targets for drug therapies for the disease - targets that have already been shown to respond to cancer drugs currently in clinical development.
Forbes interviews UNFPA Executive Director regarding global progress in reducing maternal mortality
In this post in the Forbes "Leadership" blog, contributor Rahim Kanani interviews U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin about a report titled "Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010" - released by UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank in May - "which shows that the annual number of women who die in pregnancy or childbirth has dropped from more than 543,000 to 287,000, a decline of 47 percent."
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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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