Sentences with phrase «emergency department because»

More than 50 percent opted to receive care in the hospital emergency department because of convenience, access to technology and specialty care.

Five days later, the infant was taken to the emergency department because of irritability and was admitted to a second hospital.

Not exact matches

Then because that emergency department doesn't know that person — they don't have a health record on that patient — they end up with a drug interaction and that creates another complication and they go back again and the cycle kind of repeats itself.»

The federal department of Environment and Climate Change asked KM to give it access to product information before shipment because having to chase after this information after a spill hinders emergency preparedness and delays response time.

Cocoa Beach Mayor Ben Malik says part of the roof of the Cocoa Beach Police Department has come off because of the winds from Hurricane Irma, said Brevard County Emergency Management Center spokesman David Waters.

Statistics from the Rockland County Department of Health say that an average of five seniors each year require hospital emergency room treatment because of fall - related injuries.

Others departments and employees like the President, Supreme Court and Congress need not be considered emergency personnel because the funding for their jobs does not depend on individual acts of Congress any longer; it has been written into permanent law.

The order said a state of emergency existed because the city has failed to remedy dangerous conditions cited in a state Health Department report.

According to official guidance A&E diverts, where an emergency department has temporarily closed because of the lack physical space and / or staff capacity to deal with any additional patients, should only occur as a «last resort».

«POLST is an especially useful tool for nursing home residents because they often experience transitions from the nursing home to the hospital or emergency department and back again,» said Dr. Lee Jennings, assistant professor of medicine in the division of geriatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the study's lead author.

«Because girls are more likely to come to emergency departments with suicide - related behaviors than boys, they may actually reduce their suicide risk by interacting with the system more frequently,» said Dr. Rhodes.

After controlling for age, race, sex, marital status, education, drug use, and smoking, compared to people who did not binge drink, people who drank at the various binge levels were much more likely to experience an alcohol - related emergency department visit; have an alcohol use disorder; be injured because of drinking; be arrested or have legal problems resulting from alcohol use; or be the driver in an alcohol - related traffic crash.

«Emergency department providers are often caught in a difficult position because some have their pay incentivized based on how patients report their satisfaction with their experience.

At the same time, reliance on the emergency department can add costs to the overall health care system because those patients do not get the ongoing chronic disease management and preventive care they would get at a primary care clinic.

Because of the urgent nature of emergency care, the PVSEC Emergency department welcomes waemergency care, the PVSEC Emergency department welcomes waEmergency department welcomes walk - ins.

If I had to choose a department I would definitely say emergency medicine because of how interesting some of the cases are.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is holding a series of emergency conference calls with all departments and agencies of the federal government requiring them to search for and vet «properties to temporarily house [unaccompanied alien children]» because «the need for facilities continues to grow.»

Because it's marked storage, the building department has no authority to mandate emergency egress from that space, making it a potential death trap for occupants in a fire.

Efficiency, ie, the avoidance of wasted resources, included emergency department (ED) use and hospitalizations because their costs per unit of service are high and inappropriate use of resources contributes to many of these visits.20 Continued receipt of care at the same practice after age 20 months also was included since continuity of care reduces the risk of hospitalizations and ED use21 and increases consumer satisfaction.22

A previous study also reported that healthcare workers in an emergency department were victims of direct workplace violence because they reported re-experiencing the violent event, followed by hyper - arousal and avoidance.28 Laposa and Alden reported that re-experiencing an incident of physical violence was significantly and negatively associated with emergency department workers» ability to accomplish their work.28 It is possible that the prevalence of symptoms of hyper - arousal and avoidance was not higher due to the distinctive characteristics of the healthcare workers» jobs and the hospital's culture, which required them to be able to shift their focus quickly and constantly.

Because this 2013 law prohibited such a relationship, PPSWO applied in September 2013 to the Ohio Department of Health for a waiver (also called a «variance») of the written transfer agreement, showing that it maintains agreements with local physicians who can provide care at a nearby hospital in the extremely rare case of an emergency.

Following consultation with service users and clinicians, we elected not to screen young people at first presentation in the emergency department or primary care because in this time of crisis, immediately following the self - harm event, young people and their families would not be in a position to readily give fully informed consent.