Sentences with phrase «as systems of care»

Encourages a range of programs such as systems of care to respond to the increasing number of mental, emotional, and behavioral problems among America's children

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This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

Farrington points to Canada's health care system and «impressively low level» of income inequality as factors that placed it in the top 10.

The cost of live customer care averages at about $ 7.5 per call as against the cost of automated customer care systems that are pegged at just 35 cents per call.

Health systems are beginning to hire lawyers to assist patients with various legal concerns free of charge as medical care moves toward value - based models that aim to offer more holistic care, according to Kaiser Health News.

Washington, D.C. - area hospital chain MedStar became the latest health care industry victim of a cyberattack Monday as hackers infiltrated its systems with a virus that crippled its IT infrastructure.

While some may see McKesson as part of the problem, Hammergren believes that his company, given its position in the health care system, might have insights to help with the solution.

She suggests looking to the U.S. military, which provides care for 200,000 children, as an example of a system that works well.

As my research demonstrates, we have these problems because insurance companies are at the center of the system, where they both finance and manage medical care.

Allowing for truly portable records will lead not only to major improvements in the efficiency of the health care system, but to improvements in care as well.

That sort of efficiency is a big deal, given the nation's sky - high health care costs — costs that are likely to increase in the short term as the new wave of Obamacare - covered insurees hits the system.

Lafley had installed a complex «matrix» organizational system that shared power among executives in charge of functions such as HR, marketing, and finance; executives overseeing geographic regions; and executives for product categories such as beauty care.

As for health care, there's evidence that the employer - based system and the absence of stripped - down «entrepreneurs» plans» deter people from striking out on their own.

But as Ashesh Desai, senior vice-president of pharmacy operations for Shoppers Drug Mart explains, this has a significant impact on the health - care system.

Today, Lee is dean of the University of Utah medical school as well as CEO of its hospital system, where she has undertaken an experiment that has the potential to revolutionize the nation's health care system at large.

Paid family and medical leave allows workers to take longer leaves of absence for the birth or adoption of a child, to care for a loved one, or to recover from a more serious personal injury or illness.15 Paid family and medical leave can be provided through a social insurance system, as it is in the three U.S. states that have active paid leave programs, or through another type of structure such as a government - business partnership.16

This wide - ranging work not only evaluates the overarching political and economic framework of the medical system but also provides rich narrative detail, examining the political dramas, corporate maneuverings, and forceful personalities that created American health care as we know it.

But just as Harper is de-emphasizing some of his past comments, the Liberals are also de-emphasizing their stand on private care within the public system, as we saw recently when Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew did a very public about - face on this very question.

In the next breath, however, Harper added: «It should not matter who delivers health care, whether it is private, profit, not - for - profit or public, as long as Canadians have access to those services through the public insurance system regardless of their financial needs.

This is an idea - allowing private delivery within the publicly funded health care system - that the Liberals have tolerated, and the Conservatives have a long list of quotations on their Web site designed to show that Harper's stance is the same as the Liberals».

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

How John Paul DeJoria went from homelessness to billionaire as founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems Hair Care Products.

Instead, money has been poured onto the priorities of the elderly, such as ensuring a robust health - care and pension system.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

Legislation earlier this year from Washington created quite a buzz, as the bill executed an overhaul of our entire health - care system.

As people of faith, we are called to address the injustices of the current health care system; as investors and professionals working in the field, we are called to address its inefficiencieAs people of faith, we are called to address the injustices of the current health care system; as investors and professionals working in the field, we are called to address its inefficiencieas investors and professionals working in the field, we are called to address its inefficiencies.

Moneyball was used as a metaphor to illustrate the power of analytics in health care and targeted hospitals, health systems and large physician groups.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Until now, that kind of health - care model has generally been used by hospital systems such as Geisinger Health and Kaiser Permanente.

New Democrats have long been advocating for the expanded use of midwifery services across the province as we believe that midwives play an integral role in the health care system and can be of particular benefit to women, families and First Nations communities by bringing specialized maternity care to otherwise isolated areas.

As health - care demands change and the system transititions, ongoing reforms of China's health - care service sector are being implemented to help equalize basic public health service, establish a primary health - care service system, and reform public hospitals.

The proposals for health care in Congress this year, for example, will soon escalate the clash between religious hospitals and state agencies over mandatory performance of abortion: Any single - payer system will prove, as it must, irresistible to social engineers in government, and each twist of the ratchet necessarily moves Catholic hospitals further from the Church and closer to the state.

This is certainly an interesting article which raises a legitimate question for those of faith as well as for those without any specific spiritual belief system: Does God care who wins and if so, why and how much and what influence does He have over the outcome?

Charity understood as relief of a particular need until new social systems can eliminate that need altogether becomes even more crucial when envisioned radical change of social arrangements is not likely to happen in the foreseeable future, let alone in the lifetime of those who care and are cared for.

In the United States, health care providers and others involved in the health care system (including employers and insurers) are threatened by the dictatorship of relativism in the guise of the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services, as the bishops of the United States have warned.

The great problem with governments and economic systems that are built upon the wealthy supporting the poor is that they masquerade as being the biblical model, the form of taking care of the poor that was practiced by Jesus and in the early church.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.

Tort law is a market based corrective for a market - based system, which is why I am not surprised that President Obama is sending signals that he is willing to accept tort reform as part of a health care reform package.

In the U.S., what I care about is when they want to crap all over different people in differing ways because they differ and don't agree with one another; and because this conflicted nature of the Christian belief system is thus often used as a weapon of bigotry.

IMHO Having 25 + / - kids at home (foster or not) should not give her time on the big stage in front of the American people to run for President as this would be child neglect or borders on tax payer fraud through the foster care system payments she receives for each child which is about $ 650 / Month.

We don't care what your crazy beliefs are as long as you keep it to yourself and stay out of our political system.

as an american, i've been jealous of the canadian health care system for a long time.

If you are as tired as I am of our over medicated and over priced health care system, this is a way anyone could fight back simply by being healthier!!

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

We learned the nuts and bolts of the foster care system, as well as talking in depth about loss, abuse, attachment, trauma and family.

And, as far as your whole «subsidized daycare» bit, I checked out the Care2.com story, and noted this observation «the introduction of the subsidized day care system made it possible for a lot of women, who would otherwise have stayed home with the children, to continue their careers.»

As a person who made plenty of mistakes as a teenager but had truly amazing, caring and inspiring parents, I will never support a system that says that every action I take is a reflection of my upbringinAs a person who made plenty of mistakes as a teenager but had truly amazing, caring and inspiring parents, I will never support a system that says that every action I take is a reflection of my upbringinas a teenager but had truly amazing, caring and inspiring parents, I will never support a system that says that every action I take is a reflection of my upbringing.

The American Association of Birth Centers defines a birth center as «a home - like facility existing within a health care system with a program of care designed in the wellness model of pregnancy and birth.»

Strengthen your baby's immune system and you'll spend less time fighting illnesses as he grows, says Dr. William Sears, author of 32 books on child care.