Nursing Homes in Spring Park, MN
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 Lake Minnetonka Shores Medicare and Medicaid Location: 4527 Shoreline Drive, Spring Park, Minnesota 55384 Ratings: Phone: (952) 471-4000 |
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Research suggests breastfeeding as protective factor against obesity in high-birthweight infants
Breastfeeding may protect high-birthweight infants from having overweight or obesity as children, new research from South Korea suggests.
Avastin plus Folfox4 chemotherapy significantly extends survival in second-line metastatic colorectal cancer
Genentech and Roche today announced that a randomized Phase III study of Avastin™ (bevacizumab) plus the FOLFOX4 chemotherapy regimen (oxaliplatin/5-FU/leucovorin), compared to FOLFOX4 alone, in second-line metastatic colorectal cancer patients achieved its primary endpoint of improving overall survival.
The President and White House officials try to debunk end-of-life care rumors
The Hill: "Democrats seem to have a new strategy for fighting the 'death panel' charges about healthcare reform legislation.
Study reveals link between serotonin receptor number and antidepressant treatment
An excess of one type of serotonin receptor in the center of the brain may explain why antidepressants fail to relieve symptoms of depression for 50 percent of patients, a new study from researchers at Columbia University Medical Center shows.
World finance, development ministers meet in Washington for high-level meeting on water, sanitation
The Guardian reports that "60 finance and development ministers will gather in Washington on Friday at a high-level meeting on sanitation and water." According to the newspaper, "The Sanitation and Water for All meeting, convened by Anthony Lake, executive director of the U.N. children's fund UNICEF, follows an announcement in March by UNICEF and the World Health Organization that the world had met the millennium development goal (MDG) overall target for access to safe drinking water in 2010, but that 783 million people were still missing out."
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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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