Nationwide Children's Hospital is taking responsibility for its special health
care needs population.
Not exact matches
Several of the services will focus on
population health management, including a predictive system that analyzes patient health records and insurance claims to anticipate patients» future
needs (and health
care providers» costs).
That's happening at the same time that the Canadian
population is getting older, meaning there will be more Canadians in
need of
care.
The authors note, however, that reducing education fees, increasing funding support for people with disabilities, and increasing public support for long term
care are
needed to help protect the most vulnerable
populations during times of economic recovery.
As the baby boomer
population ages, more and more senior citizens are in
need of at - home
care.
Since the region has an aging
population yet is stretched thin on health
care funding, he says Atlantic Canada
needs to do something different.
Prior says that «as the aging
population starts to jeopardise the sustainability of current healthcare funding it will place increased pressure on both public and private payers to find cheaper, more efficient ways of delivering
care, and where possible reduce the
need for
care in the first place.»
In the areas of families and health, the Party notes that it has increased childcare subsidies; funded the creation of additional childcare spaces; approved funding for new hospitals in Sherwood Park and Grande Prairie, the Edmonton clinic, and the South Calgary Health Campus; and approved $ 280 million for 832 continuing
care beds to meet the
needs of an aging
population.
It
needs them, because there are fewer family members to
care for an aging
population.
We partner with nonprofits that serve
populations in
need — from pantries, to homeless shelters, to backpack projects, subsidized day
care centers and church programs.
Once children are welcome in society, maybe people in countries like Germany that
need young people badly to pay for the retirement and health
care costs of the older segments of the
population, will consider having more children.
Similarly, Cathy Warwick, on being confronted by the reality that there are not enough staff and equipment to provide
care for women in labor now declares that what midwives women really
need is access to a specialized service that is appropriate for only a tiny proportion of the
population and represents a dreadfully inefficient use of scarce resources.
Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health
care delivery environment, to meet the changing
needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient
population and to focus on public health and disease prevention.
But the CNMs have enough credibility in the community that they have nudged our local
population of Amish into better prenatal
care, hospital
care if
needed, and they generally have good outcomes.
With a large percentage of the US
population feeling unrecognized and unheard, maternal and mental health
care is exactly what we
need most.
«Health and
care services
need to rise to the challenge of responding to the increasingly complex conditions suffered by our ageing
population,» said Dave Behan, CQC chief executive.
Surveys of public opinion indicate that Germans by and large are satisfied with their health
care system (as opposed to the U.S. where a large portion of the
population thinks that system
needs substantial changes).
Third and most importantly, Ghana has not got the resources to take
care of our
population needs.
«Sampson's representatives made similar calls to other groups that depend on the state for funding.Sampson's sister, Yvette Henriquez, has a 20 % stake in the proposed home
care agency, Shining Star Home Care, a for - profit company that is applying to the state Department of Health to operate a «special - needs population» certified home health agency, or CHHA.&ra
care agency, Shining Star Home
Care, a for - profit company that is applying to the state Department of Health to operate a «special - needs population» certified home health agency, or CHHA.&ra
Care, a for - profit company that is applying to the state Department of Health to operate a «special -
needs population» certified home health agency, or CHHA.»
The twin drivers of shrinking budgets and an ageing
population with an increasing
need for
care are making these essential services unsustainable in the long term.
Oneida County's Office for the Aging / Continuing
Care partnered with the Parkway Center and The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties to launch the AARP Network of Age - Friendly Communities, and late last year, began the planning phase of the initiative which will address the
needs of the community's elder
population.
The future of social
care remains a ticking time - bomb, and just last month the chief inspector of prisons told MPs that older prisoners are the fastest growing part of the jail
population and the service is struggling to meet their
needs.
«But to build an even fairer society, Cornwall
needs the power to make sure a young person can get into town without a car; that a new family can find somewhere to live in the area they grew up in; and that our ageing
population gets the seamless
care they deserve,» they added.
The interface between health and social
care is crying out for innovation — health and social
care need to join up for the older
population, just as education and social work must speak the same language for younger people.
Green added, «compassion for those in
need,
caring enough to do the work, and bringing joy to others are three characteristics these 450 youth volunteers brought to Oneida Counties senior citizen
population.»
Each jurisdiction requesting or requiring homeless assistance from the state will be asked to design a strategic plan we call the Continuum of
Care, which assesses the size and
needs of each sub group within the homeless
population and identifies exactly what they
need.
This would raise money, he said, to fund the promised new national
care service so it can cater properly for the
needs of the rapidly ageing
population.
Perhaps not enough mileage is made of biotech's low - tech origins — people have been brewing and baking for thousands of years, after all — or that a major driving force for the industry is a growing and ageing world
population and its burgeoning
need for food, health
care, and energy supplies.
«Understanding changes in prevalence according to
population subgroups is important to inform clinicians about
care that will be
needed for the pediatric
population living with diabetes and may provide direction for other studies designed to determine the causes of the observed changes,» the authors write.
«As the aging
population seeking health
care grows, so does the
need for community pharmacists who can offer counseling and
care,» says Rudolph.
As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the
population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the
need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health
care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.
«Thyroidectomy is considered a fairly safe operation in general, but some
populations are more vulnerable and
need extra attention in pre - and post-operative
care,» Papaleontiou says.
With the number of prisoners with severe mental illness in prison increasing, efforts
need to be made by all prison staff to ensure that this segment of the prison
population has appropriate mental health
care and safety.»
A detailed analysis of the lives of nearly a thousand people from birth to age 38 shows that a small portion of the
population accounts for the lion's share of social costs such as crime, welfare dependence and health -
care needs as adults.
Each new report of their symptoms provides a clearer window into the health
care needs of this
population.
There are great opportunities in Finland to systematically utilise this kind of intervention, as the
needed expertise and infrastructure exist already and the entire
population is covered by the national health
care system.
«This underscores the
need to provide evidence - based, patient and caregiver centered
care to this
population to prevent institutionalization and hospitalization.»
«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear
need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health
care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this
population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
«We initiated the Great Ape Aging Project 20 years ago because we saw an aging chimpanzee
population under human
care that would
need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington University.
Research suggests that between five and 15 per cent of the general
population have had an occasional experience of hearing voices, with as many as one per cent having more complex and regular voice - hearing experiences in the absence of any
need for psychiatric
care.
«Such prevalence data does not itself define
need for
care or targets for prevention, but reliable information on prevalence will help to drive public health and healthcare policymakers» prioritisation of this important cause of distress and disability in the general
population,» they conclude.
Most European countries face an ever - aging
population needing more
care.
To ensure they were among the frail
population most vulnerable to flu, only people who
needed full or partial assistance in at least one daily self -
care activity, such as dressing or grooming, were included.
«Community health centers have the unique ability to help fulfill the promise of health reform by providing much -
needed primary
care to our nation's most vulnerable
populations,» said Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.
«Community health centers can only fulfill the promise of health reform if they have the resources to provide much -
needed care to our nation's most vulnerable
populations,» said Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.
As the U.S.
population ages and health insurance coverage grows under health reform, the
need for primary
care continues to rise.
If it was a service entity, such as the Red Cross, I'd deal with mass -
care issues for disaster - affected
populations needing shelter and ongoing community
care.
«As the world's
population ages, it is becoming increasingly important to develop ways to support successful prospective memory functioning so that older adults can continue to live independently at home without the
need for assisted
care,» said Nathan Rose, lead investigator of the study and now a research fellow in the School of Psychology at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.
A special March supplement to Medical
Care presents updates from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) Research Network, formed to address knowledge gaps and research challenges in meeting the complex health care needs of this growing populat
Care presents updates from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) Research Network, formed to address knowledge gaps and research challenges in meeting the complex health
care needs of this growing populat
care needs of this growing
population.
«The CCRC is an interdisciplinary model of
care focusing on the unique
needs of ICU survivors, a growing
population that does not receive specialized
care it deserves,» said study senior author Babar A. Khan, MD, of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Regenstrief Institute, Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science and IU School of Medicine.