Sentences with phrase «at quality hospitals»

The insured person can get cashless facility at quality hospitals.

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Today, she's at the same institution with a different role — she transitioned from the business - operations team on the academic side of things to being a quality specialist on the hospital side — and receiving a much higher annual salary: $ 72,000.

What it's like: Angelo Fefekos, who recently became Director of Quality Assurance at Markham, Ont. - based MedReleaf Corp. and previously managed a lab at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital says the work of a health - sector manager requires making «tough yes - or - no decisions» to ensure the best delivery of laboratory services.

In addition, hospitals must now engage and align interests with patients, doctors, employees, insurers and the community at large to ensure quality care and effective use of resources.

A report commissioned by the Massachusetts hospital industry projects that a ballot question to regulate nurse staffing would come at an extraordinary cost and worsen the quality of patient care.

He oversaw creation of a 24 - hour hotline for veteran complaints and improved transparency, posting wait times for medical appointments at each facility and other quality - control measures consistent with many private - sector hospitals.

The couple, both in their 30s and from Bedfont, west London, want to take the baby to a hospital in the US for experimental treatment, but lost a lengthy legal battle after judges ruled in favour of doctors at GOSH, who argued the therapy would not improve Charlie's quality of life.

Community Chef is a social enterprise that provides quality meals for people nutritionally at risk, often the elderly, people with a disability, hospital patients and aged care residents.

Niko Romito has redesigned the hospital food chain via the Inteligencia Nutricional project, using techniques and concepts developed at his Michelin - starred restaurant Reale to improve the sensory quality of the meals and to maximise the nutritional value of its ingredients — and all within hospital budgets.

Twelve critical success factors, including «the right attitude, focus, leadership, teamwork, support, and a personal and financial commitment to best practice and continuous quality improvement,» were identified, based on practices at four Ontario hospitals with comparatively low caesarean rates.19 The «right attitude» included taking pride in a low caesarean rate, developing a culture of birth as a normal physiological process, and having a commitment to one to one supportive care during active labour.

The homicide rate is greatly affected by the quality of the hospital's trauma center, but the aggravated assault rate is the rate at which people are actually trying to kill or seriously injure each other.

I then became the Education Coordinator and Quality Assurance Coordinator at Lincoln Hospital.

I was part of a team of consultants who worked with hospitals throughout southern California, offering maternal - infant attachment and breastfeeding training as well as technical expertise to improve the quality of breastfeeding support offered at the hospitals.

The goal is to provide mothers with the same high quality equipment they use at the hospital during their stay at a Ronald McDonald House.

Sound Oasis sound machines are used in hospitals, clinics and at home throughout the world to help people get to sleep easier and obtain higher quality sleep.

Our team provides your baby with the same high quality of care we provide at our main hospital in Palo Alto.

Barbara Harper worked closely with Waterbirth Solutions director, Marla Althouse, to make sure the best quality birth pools, both inflatables and specially designed pools for installation, were available for parents at home, for hospital installation and for birth centers around the world.

In the Continuity of Care Program of Medela Inc. provides mothers with the same high - quality equipment they use at the hospital during their stay at a Ronald McDonald House ®.

Find the expertise your child needs from top pediatric neurologists at Floating Hospital in Boston, offering quality care for diseases of the nervous system.

At Floating Hospital for Children, our quiet policy helps children sleep, rest and enjoy quality health care in a peaceful environment.

If the beeping sound does not bother you at all, I can say that the Ameda Purely Yours is the perfect choice for breastfeeding mothers who are looking for a budget friendly, hospital - grade quality, personal breast pump.

If your plan is to go to exclusive pumping, then a quality multi-user breast pump like the kind used in rented at hospitals is what you'll need.

At a recent Doula class, we were talking briefly about quality of care... the lack of it really, especially for women of color, and my friend and co-teacher, Djifa, suggested, simply but firmly, that we keep women out of hospitals.

MD News — Engineering High - Quality Specialty Care: The Joint Replacement Program at Bronx - Lebanon Hospital Center.

Or is it morally acceptable to have a situation where those who don't get their name down first, are only able to choose from a lower quality selection of schools and hospitals to be treated at?

«And another issue is whether pay should be linked to quality of care rather than just time served at a hospital.

We need a hospital inspections regime that doesn't just look at numerical targets but examines the quality of care and makes an open, public and explicit judgement.

«Francisco Moya has shown his commitment to quality health care in his past work at Elmhurst Hospital, where he helped rejuvenate the facility so that it could continue to provide quality care for the people of Queens,» said 1199's political director Kevin Finnegan.

The first lady made the observation when she interacted and presented medical supplies to the Essam Government Hospital at Bia West in the Western Region as part of the Lordina Foundation's efforts to support government in ensuring quality healthcare for the citizenry.

And we will continue to open up acute care with, from the spring, the choice of hospitals trusts across private and public sectors in England extending to over 300 - including more than 150 private sector hospitals working as part of the NHS and at NHS cost and standards of quality.

Luke's Healthcare has been awarded a «Certificate of Excellence» by the New York State Department of Health's (NYSDOH) Hepatitis B Perinatal Prevention Program following a quality assurance / medical record review conducted at the hospital.

«This raises the important question of why it costs more for certain hospitals to provide the same types of services to similar populations at similar quality as those services provided by other hospitals at a lower cost,» the report said.

The Chief in excitement exclaimed «wow» at the size and quality of District Hospital in Fomena under construction which he and the President inspected together.

We have now been able to show that both over - and underactivity in the stress system, with corresponding elevated or reduced cortisol levels, can impair mental health in terms of depression and poor quality of life in these patients,» says Martin Maripuu, a PhD student at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry Unit Umeå University and physician at the psychiatric clinic, Östersund Hospital.

«Hospitals are going to be looking for ways to improve quality of care for Medicare patients in order to lower readmission rates and prevent fines,» said study co-author, Tomas Philipson, Ph.D., who is the Daniel Levin Chair of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Steve Kell, GP and co chair of the NHS Clinical Commissioners representative group, said: «CCGs are trying to develop a sense of joint responsibility for populations, so people in the hospital are thinking beyond their hospital walls to look at nursing home quality, and anything that affects our patients.

She is director of the medical intensive care unit at Keck Hospital of USC, chief quality and patient safety officer at Keck Medical Center of USC and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

«Doctors who treat children with cleft lip or palate have observed for a long time that tooth decay is a problem, and one that can affect their quality of life,» said Dr. Michael Cunningham, medical director of the Craniofacial Center at Seattle Children's Hospital.

«We see patients who we're treating for ARDS who are very sick and, who at the time, may not look like their quality of life will be great, but our study shows that their level of acuity is not a marker of whether they will experience a high quality of life once they leave the hospital,» said Dr. Brown.

Massachusetts» healthcare reform didn't result in substantially more hospital use or higher costs, according to data presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013.

«Non motor features are common in PD patients, occur across all disease stages, and while well described, are still under - recognized when considering their huge impact on patients» quality of life,» says Lisa Klingelhoefer, MD, a fellow at the National Parkinson Foundation International Centre of Excellence, Department of Neurology, King's College Hospital and King's College, London.

«Moving toward quality patient - centered care at cancer hospital.»

Ram and her collaborators — including Wenli Zhang, a UA doctoral student in management information systems, and researchers from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation — created a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would visit the emergency room at a large hospital in Dallas on a given day, based on an analysis of data gleaned from electronic medical records, air quality sensors and Twitter.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

The findings of the randomized study (S6 - 03) were presented at the 2014 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6 - 9, by Dr. Kerin Adelson, assistant professor of medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center and chief quality officer at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale - New Haven.

«I thought that was terrible quality of care,» said Goldberger, a professor of medicine in cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a cardiologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

Because past analyses have not accounted for hospital effects, their comparisons across SNFs did not take into account differences in the quality of care at discharging hospitals.

«Our goal here was to get a picture of what is happening when patients go to a SNF after hospital discharge, and we found that some of the assumptions about the impact of nursing home quality on outcomes may have been overstated,» says the study's lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSc, an assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

That's why N of 1 experiments are worth doing, even if you can't do them perfectly, says Michael Seid, director of health outcomes and quality of care research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.