Nursing Homes in Milbank, SD
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 Avantara Milbank Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1103 South Second Street, Milbank, South Dakota 57252 Ratings: Phone: (605) 432-4556 |
St William's Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 103 N Viola St, Milbank, South Dakota 57252 Ratings: Phone: (605) 432-5811 |
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Three sequencing companies join 1000 Genomes Project
Leaders of the 1000 Genomes Project announced today that three firms that have pioneered development of new sequencing technologies have joined the international effort to build the most detailed map to date of human genetic variation as a tool for medical research. The new participants are: 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, Branford, Conn.; Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corp. business, Foster City, Calif.; and Illumina Inc., San Diego.
Researchers develop new mouse model that could lead to better treatment of kidney cancer
Research in the field of kidney cancer, also called renal cancer, is vital, because many patients with this disease still cannot be cured today.
New research may provide insight on how dengue virus gains entry into cells
Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus, afflicts millions of people each year, causing fever, headache, muscle and joint pains and a characteristic skin rash. In some people the disease progresses to a severe, often fatal, form known as dengue hemorrhagic fever.
Conventional echocardiography increases accuracy of pre-participation sports screening
Echocardiography with conventional M-mode and 2D modalities is a simple and cost effective way to increases the accuracy of pre-participation sports screening, according to research presented at EuroEcho-Imaging 2013 by Dr Alexander Kisko from Presov, Slovakia.
2011 RAC Summit prepares physicians for new audit landscape
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama this past March greatly expands the audit operations for Medicare and Medicaid programs. At the hub of these efforts are the Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), which are fully operational for the Medicare program, and will expand to include services reimbursed by state Medicaid programs in April of 2011.
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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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