Nursing Homes in Kannapolis, NC
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 Transitional Health Services Of Kannapolis Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1810 Concord Lake Road, Kannapolis, North Carolina 28083 Ratings: Phone: (704) 933-3781 |
Big Elm Retirement And Nursing Centers Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1285 West A Street, Kannapolis, North Carolina 28081 Ratings: Phone: (704) 932-0000 |
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Mediomics receives additional $460,000 in STTR Phase II grant for PINCER protein assay development
Mediomics, LLC has received an additional $460,000 in a renewal of its 2nd year STTR Phase II grant (R42GM079891) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Since 2007, Mediomics has received over one million dollars of STTR funding to develop its quick and sensitive homogenous PINCER™ protein assay. The major goal of the second year project is to further increase the sensitivity of the biosensor.
Chilean hospital's early use of antiviral treatment and aggressive measures helped reduce H1N1 cases
A Chilean hospital's early use of antiviral treatment in influenza patients and other aggressive measures helped reduce the number of severe H1N1 cases and related deaths. Those are the findings of a new study, now available online (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/650750), published in the March 15, 2010 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Vanderbilt researchers announce multi-national collaboration on Alzheimer's disease genetics
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and across the globe, announced today a multi-national collaboration to discover and map all genes relating to Alzheimer's disease through the formation of the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project.
Obama says balancing budget without addressing health care is 'impossible'
President Obama on Tuesday during a prime-time news conference linked issues within the U.S. budget in part to high health care costs, stating that "almost every single person" who has examined the nation's budget has concluded that the government must find a way to reduce health care costs, the Washington Post reports (Shear/Wilson, Washington Post, 3/25).
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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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