Nursing Homes in North Branch, MN
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 Ecumen North Branch Medicare and Medicaid Location: 5379 -383rd Street, North Branch, Minnesota 55056 Ratings: Phone: (651) 829-0117 |
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Study discovers genetic variations that increase heart attack risk for statin patients
A Vanderbilt-led research team has discovered genetic variations that increase the risk of heart attack even when patients are receiving a statin drug like Lipitor or Crestor to lower their blood cholesterol.
Opal Aged Care signs agreement to acquire Stockland's aged care portfolio
Today, Opal Aged Care (formerly Domain Principal Group) and Stockland announced an agreement for Opal Aged Care to acquire Stockland's aged care portfolio. The acquisition signals the start of a longer term partnership through cooperation on future co-located retirement living and aged care sites.
CAPP introduces new initiative on accountable care for public
The Council of Accountable Physician Practices, an affiliate of the American Medical Group Association, today announced a new initiative to provide the public, media, and policymakers with resources and information about the value of care coordination and accountable care to national health care reform.
New data demonstrates clinical utility of AlloSure in repeat kidney transplant recipients
CareDx, Inc., a leading molecular diagnostics company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value diagnostic solutions for transplant patients, today announces the publication of data demonstrating the clinical utility of measuring AlloSure in repeat kidney transplant recipients in the American Journal of Transplantation.
Countermarketing messages convinces many parents to avoid buying sugary drinks for children
Public health messages such as in the image (associated with this release) -; designed to reduce parents' purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages marketed as fruit drinks or children -; convinced a significant percentage of parents to avoid those drinks, according to a study by researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania.
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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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