Nursing Homes in Arlington, SD
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 Avantara Arlington Medicare and Medicaid Location: 120 Care Center Road, Arlington, South Dakota 57212 Ratings: Phone: (605) 983-5796 |
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$100,000 needed to analyze '$1,000' genetic data
Advances in technology have almost lifted the curtain on the long-awaited era of the "$1,000 genome" - a time when all the genes that make up a person can be deciphered for about that amount - compared to nearly $1 million a few years ago.
First Edition: May 17, 2013
Today's headlines include reports about the GOP vote to repeal the health law - for the 37th time - as well as how the current IRS scandal is being connected to the health law's implementation.
Number, percentage of uninsured U.S. residents decreased in 2007, according to U.S. Census Bureau
The number and percentage of uninsured U.S. residents declined in 2007 to 45.7 million people, or 15.3% of the population, according to an annual U.S. Census Bureau report released Tuesday, USA Today reports (Cauchon/Appleby, USA Today, 8/27).
Researchers outline checklist for implementing COVID-19 communication strategies
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced unique challenges for public health practitioners and health communicators that warrant an expansion of existing health communication principles to take into consideration.
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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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