Nursing Homes in Fosston, MN

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First Care Living Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 900 Hilligoss Boulevard Southeast, Fosston, Minnesota 56542
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   Phone: (218) 435-1133

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TSO3 obtains purchase orders from the US for STERIZONE sterilization system

TSO3 Inc., an innovator in sterilization technology for medical devices in healthcare settings, today announced that the Company has received purchase orders for multiple devices from the US. The orders are the result of the collaborative relationship between Getinge Infection Control, its sales and service provider, and the Company.

DNA synthesis in the 3' and 5' direction possible using new template-directed method

When a cell divides, it passes on genetic information by producing copies of its DNA. Chemists have also learned to copy DNA. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a German team has now introduced a new copying technique that uses a single strand of DNA as the "master copy", like a cell, but does not require enzymes.

Additional data demonstrates positive results of pridopidine drug on Total Functional Capacity

Positive results from additional analyses of PRIDE-HD and Open-HART trials with pridopidine published in a peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Huntington's Disease.

Process of aging could be delayed in human cell lines

Can the process of aging be delayed or even reversed? Research led by specially appointed Professor Jun-Ichi Hayashi from the University of Tsukuba in Japan has shown that, in human cell lines at least, it can. They also found that the regulation of two genes involved with the production of glycine, the smallest and simplest amino acid, is partly responsible for some of the characteristics of aging.

Patients should wait at least six weeks to resume driving following shoulder replacement surgery

More than 53,000 Americans have total shoulder joint replacement (SJR) surgery each year, and yet the effects of this surgery on a patient's ability to safely drive a vehicle, and the appropriate recovery time before patients should return to driving, have yet to be determined.

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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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