Sentences with phrase «care quality rating»

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Wonder which state has the lowest crime rate, ranks high in environmental quality, parks and recreation and access to health care?

Notwithstanding our commitment to Customer Care, our customers will occasionally encounter interruptions in service and other technical challenges and it is therefore critical that we are there to provide ongoing, high - quality support to help ensure high renewal rates and cross-selling of our products.

Our highly - rated Customer Care team of more than 3,300 specialists is focused on providing high - quality, personalized cCare team of more than 3,300 specialists is focused on providing high - quality, personalized carecare.

Moreover, a number of features of the US sub-prime market which have contributed to its current problems are not present in Australia, including large teaser rates, a marked decline in lending standards, and an originate and distribute model where the originator has a reduced incentive to care about the quality of the loan written.

Though quality care is most crucial in the first two years, major studies rate only 8 percent of infant child care as good or excellent.

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.

For a long time, the quality of maternity care has been measured by the rate of deaths to mothers and babies.

Our Las Vegas fertility clinic is an international destination for high - quality fertility care, thanks to our world - renowned research, extremely high success rates, decades of experience and commitment to patient service.

If all women in the US had access to high quality health care, the maternal death rate in the US would probably be 2/3 or half of what it is today.

During that time the death rate in labour or the neonatal period in non-malformed babies of normal birth weight born to women booked for a home delivery (those deaths most capable of reduction by high quality care during labour) was as low as the regional figure for all other such losses (0.05 % v 0.11 %).

Georgia launched a voluntary quality rating and improvement system in January 2012 with the expectation that 700 child care programs would begin participating in the first year.

The quality - based child care rating system, Texas Rising Star, supports breastfeeding in its guidelines too.

Adolescents and parents rated the parents on several qualities, for example, «act loving, affectionate, and caring,» «listen carefully,» and «act supportive and understanding.»

It appears that the quality of private midwifery care varies widely, and it's difficult to get accurate information about a particular midwife's qualifications and success rates.

In the absence of any external rating system, experts recommend that parents look for signs that their pediatrician is giving quality care, including:

We were AMAZED to learn that an uninterrupted 60 minutes of Kangaroo Care would accelerate baby's brain development, reduce stress and crying, regulate baby's body temperature, heart rate and breathing; increase their quality of sleep; enhance their immune system; stimulate digestion and weight gain; and increase breastfeeding behavior.

In June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designation.

For many years, perinatal mortality rates were used for this purpose, often with little regard for the value and validity of such data.11 Now, with rates well below 10 per 1000 births, they have lost virtually all of their utility for measuring quality of care in the Western world.

We believe optional designation weakens one of the most effective strategies used to achieve sustainable improvements in the quality of maternity care and breastfeeding rates, as evidenced by research and its success in many countries.

Poverty, race, socioeconomic factors, access to medical care and indoor air quality have a stronger connection to the high asthma rates, not the geographic location.

«Not only will HR 3962 help working men and women better secure affordable, quality health care, but it will also help small businesses access health care with lower rates and stable pricing from year to year», said Hughes.

QUALITYstarsNY, as New York's early childhood quality rating and improvement system, is a vital and necessary resource for child care providers to deliver the high quality care that has the greatest impacts on young children.

Thursday 14 March 2013 11 am Oral Questions Measures to force British companies to disclose any tax avoidance schemes that could be detrimental to poorer countries - Lord Collins of Highbury The findings of the Care Quality Commission's Home Care Inspection Review Not Just a Number - Baroness Wheeler Crime detection rates - Baroness Smith of Basildon Debate Afghanistan's regional relationships and their impact on its long - term future - Baroness Warsi Orders and Regulations Diocese in Europe Measure; Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Measure - The Lord Bishop of Newcastle Short Debate Impact on the UK of future demographic trends - Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

Emails released by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) watchdog under freedom of information laws showed that the Department of Health under Labour tried to stop details emerging of a hospital scandal involving higher - than - normal death rates.

«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.

These quality metrics included a review of inpatient admissions, average length of stay in the hospital and time spent in the intensive care unit, the 30 - day readmission rate, and other patient - related statistics.

The study recommends that the Department of Defense investigate the reasons for the significant variation in quality measure rates to ensure consistent, high - quality care.

London and Schenker argue that while the Internet offers patients valuable data and tools — including hospital quality ratings and professional treatment guidelines — that may help them when facing decisions about where to seek care or whether to undergo a medical procedure, reliable and unbiased information may be hard to identify among the growing number of medical care advertisements online.

With survival rates improving for ARDS patients, understanding and improving their quality of life outcomes is a clinical and research priority, according to the study's principal investigator Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS, FASE, director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain Medical Center.

«We have shown that professional training to reinforce skills in obstetric clinical practice and self - assessment are effective in reducing the rate of medically unnecessary caesareans and in improving the quality of care offered to mothers and babies.

However, in analyses that accounted for important patient characteristics such as age, sex, comorbidities, and the reason for hospitalization, the quality of care of the discharging hospital and SNF facility characteristics, outcomes did not vary meaningfully across SNFs that differed in staffing ratings or their performance on clinical measures related to pain or delirium.

«Cardiac arrest survival rates are unacceptably low,» said Robert Graham, chair of the study committee and director of the national program office for Aligning Forces for Quality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. «Although breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiac arrest are promising, the ability to deliver timely interventions and high - quality care is inconsQuality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. «Although breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiac arrest are promising, the ability to deliver timely interventions and high - quality care is inconsquality care is inconsistent.

The researchers identified high - quality hospitals by using two common measures of surgical quality: 30 - day surgical mortality rates and patient reported experience with care.

Researchers found that implementing a bundle of care — including a special guideline - based protocol, TCPR training and quality improvement — resulted in gains in several areas, including a reduction in the time to first bystander chest compression (from 256 to 212 seconds), an increase in TCPR rates (from 44 percent to 53 percent) and most importantly an increase in survival to hospital discharge (from 9 percent to 12 percent) and in favorable functional outcomes (from 5.6 percent to 8.3 percent).

The study, published April 19 in the peer - reviewed Annals of Internal Medicine, also found improved quality of coverage, more frequent use of health care, and increased rates of diagnoses for chronic health conditions.

«The strikingly high rate of medication use may be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to concerns about quality of care within the child welfare system.»

In the first multi-state study of children's and non-children's hospitals, assessing pediatric readmission and revisit rates — being admitted into the hospital again or visiting the emergency room within 30 days of discharge — for common pediatric conditions, UCSF researchers found that diagnosis - specific readmission and revisit rates are limited in their usefulness as a quality indicator for pediatric hospital care.

Obermeyer and colleagues assessed hospitalization rates, intensive care admissions, and invasive procedures, but additional measures must have evidence of their ability to discriminate the quality of care and must be responsive to change, easy to understand, and actionable.

The faster rate of improvement in lung function and nutrition in the United States, the researchers suggested, may be due to earlier implementation of newborn screening or quality improvement initiatives for the disease and improved access to medical care under the Medicaid Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the United States.

April 4, 2016 Consumers reveal obstacles to using nursing home quality ratings A study of dozens of people who placed a relative or friend in a nursing home in the previous six months found that few people were aware of the Nursing Home Compare website, published online by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help families find the best and closest available care facility.

«With New Jersey having one of the highest rates of cancer incidence in the nation, it is imperative that Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey — the state's only National Cancer Institute - designated Comprehensive Cancer Center — continue to provide the highest quality of patient care.

Quiz Ref IDFemale physicians now account for approximately one - third of the US physician workforce17 and comprise half of all US medical school graduates.18 Despite evidence suggesting that female physicians may provide higher - quality care,1 - 4, 7,8,10,12 - 16 some have argued that career interruptions for childrearing, higher rates of part - time employment, and greater tradeoffs between home and work responsibilities19 may compromise the quality of care provided by female physicians and justify higher salaries among male physicians.20 - 22 Therefore, empirical evidence on whether patient outcomes differ between male and female physicians is warranted.

Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first - rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has created a registry for evidence - based treatments that rates the quality of research supporting the treatment on a 0 — 4 scale, and some insurance companies and state health - care systems (such as the one in Oregon) have altered their reimbursement policies to favor evidence - based therapies.

In a nutshell, this study shows that most patients with chronic Lyme disease have severe symptoms, require lots of medical care, and suffer a low quality of life with high disability and unemployment rates.

The ratings systems also allows businesses to engage in a one - to - one conversation with users by responding to individual reviews and showing that the team cares about the quality of service they provide.

59 % of respondents use social media to «vent» about a customer care experience 72 % of respondents research companies» customer care online prior to purchasing at least sometimes 84 % of respondents consider the quality of customer care at least sometimes in their decision to do business with a company 74 % choose companies / brands based on others» customer care experiences shared online 81 % believe that blogs, online rating systems and discussion forums can give consumers a greater voice regarding customer careless than 33 % believe that businesses take customers» opinions seriously

Classroom quality, as rated by observers on dimensions such as space and furnishings, personal - care routines, and interactions between teachers and children, has also been shown to affect outcomes for children.

Pick any Catholic hospital in the land, look it up on this Medicare site, and you can easily obtain all sorts of information about the quality of care that it provides, including postoperative complications, readmission rates, death rates for heart - attack patients, what former patients think about the nursing, and on and on.

That support can take the form of technical assistance, such as on - site coaching or consultation; financial incentives, like tiered child care subsidy reimbursement rates and quality improvement grants; and workforce supports, like wage subsidies or scholarships for teachers pursuing higher education.Aleksandra Holod et al., Moving Up the Ladder: How Do States Deliver Quality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and Improvement Squality improvement grants; and workforce supports, like wage subsidies or scholarships for teachers pursuing higher education.Aleksandra Holod et al., Moving Up the Ladder: How Do States Deliver Quality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and Improvement SQuality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality Rating and Improvement SQuality Rating and Improvement Systems?