Sentences with phrase «with safety net hospitals»

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Medicare safety net arrangements are part of this system and operate to assist Australians with high out - of - pocket costs for out - of - hospital services.

I'm glad things went well for you, but you would have had the same outcome in a hospital as well, just with the safety net of trained staff and equipment in the event of an emergency.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

«While Massachusetts safety - net hospitals (many of which are minority - serving) received large cuts in payments with the idea that other hospitals would assume the care of previously uninsured patients, this study demonstrates the importance of securing the future of safety - net and minority - serving hospitals through policy - based interventions to assure the continued care of vulnerable and underserved patient populations.»

He pointed out that many factors could be linked with a hospital being a safety net.

In the event you have been detected with a disease, these senior life insurance comparison can give a financial safety net for hospital assistance and funeral or cremation bills.

As the region's leading safety net hospital, Tampa General is committed to providing area residents with excellent and compassionate health care ranging from...