Sentences with phrase «for hospital operations»

Received commendation for multitasking with limited training, and known as knowledgeable resource by peers for hospital operations, insurance / billing questions.

An additional $ 674,000 in salary and contract spending was eliminated yesterday at the Nassau University Medical Center, bringing the two - day purge of costs deemed unnecessary for hospital operations to more than $ 2.34 million.

An additional $ 674,000 in salary and contract spending was eliminated Wednesday at the Nassau University Medical Center, bringing the two - day purge of costs deemed unnecessary for hospital operations to more than $ 2.34 million.

Not exact matches

I won't reveal yet who my favorites are, but I will say that these young scientist - founders came up with very creative solutions for preventing infections in some common surgeries, tackling resistance in targeted antibody drugs, improving gene vectors for cell therapies, helping the vision - impaired «see» faces and better read their environments, imaging hard - to - see spots in the lungs and other organs, improving genetic risk analysis, and expediting the logistical operations of hospitals.

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston regularly recruits from a local organization called Operation A.B.L.E., which provides job opportunities for older individuals.

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.

Before calling different hospitals to learn what they typically charge for your operation — a very proactive cost - cutting initiative on your part — ask your medical professional for the current procedural terminology (CPT) code for the procedure you'll be undergoing.

He brings over 10 years of experience in the healthcare industry and has managed operations for Hospital & Physician billing of various outsourced billing companies.

Families dashed desperately from hospital to hospital searching for their loved ones, said Alan Keesee, the hospital's chief operations officer.

Conde was killed in an operation in which another U.S. service member was wounded and medically evacuated to Bagram Airfield north of Kabul for medical treatment in a military hospital.

Another change in those years was that, after an unduly delayed, major operation for appendicitis, I began to write poetry, writing the first poem in the hospital itself.

Another case was a male who had a stomach pain when taken to hospital it was found out he was a female having a period pain... although she had a small private part as of a male pointing out... as a he she was married to another female and has children... So had to divorce and marry a man after having had an operation...!?! What we call those who unintentionally had been mistaken for??

The program at Boston's Long Island Hospital has been in operation for over ten years.

One evening, I lost the power of speech and had to be rushed to the hospital for an immediate operation.

By requiring Catholic organizations (such as schools and hospitals) to cover contraception and sterilization does not force anyone to to get contraceptives or to be sterilized, it just means if the employees of these organizations have insurance coverage of contraceptives IF they CHOOSE to use contraceptives or an operation such as a vasectomy or tubal ligation for sterilization.

The ambassador said he was heartened about prospects for Jewish and Muslim cooperation when his wife visited an Israeli hospital last week for an emergency appendectomy, with the operation and the recovery overseen by Jewish and Muslim doctors and nurses working together.

The concept of the green kitchen started when Boudreaux — who has been a client of FMG's for approximately 28 years and at the time was running a foodservice operation in a specialty hospital — told Witten about his dissatisfaction with his hospital's current foodservice.

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 8, 2017 — Towne Park announced today that it has acquired CitiPark, a leading provider of hospitality and parking solutions for hotels, hospitals and special events with operations in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

These include director of purchasing and corporate director of strategic planning at U.S. Foodservice Inc., and vice president of purchasing for Metz Culinary Management, a top 20 management company running foodservice operations in college, hospital, K — 12, and other segments, as well as franchisee restaurants and hotels.

He is accountable for daily operations, planning and implementing multiple programs including; room service, personnel management, staff training and development, policy administration, purchasing, marketing of services, nutrition education, budget compliance, sanitation and adherence to the standards of hospital and regulatory agencies.

In addition to the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire, Homes for Our Troops, Operation Care for Troops, Easter Seals New Hampshire, Toys for Tots, New Hampshire Food Bank, Granite United Way, Concord Hospital and the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire have all benefitted from NHLC's support.

For this reason, they're particularly popular with institutional foodservice operations such as schools and hospitals.

Now a department chairman at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, he set up the first clinical bone bank in the nation, pioneered work in new types of ear operations and founded a clinic for deaf children, using his own funds to start it.

It takes longer to recover from a caesarean section than a natural birth and most women stay in hospital for around 3 - 4 days after the operation.

The facility is part of the hospital's community outreach, said Alan Iftiniuk, vice president of operations for Good Shepherd.

In our Spectra Baby USA S1 Hospital Grade Electric Breast Pump review, Spectra S1 scores well on features such as design, LED display for various settings, night light, good suction, hygiene and almost silent operation.

C - sections account for nearly one - third of all U.S. births, making surgical deliveries the most common operation in U.S. hospitals, the Times reports.

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita underwent an operation at a hospital in Paris this week as part of treatment for a benign tumour on his neck, the presidency said in a statement late on Wednesday.

Meg Hillier MP, the chair of the Commons public accounts committee, said the findings were shocking for those people affected this winter by overcrowded hospitals and cancelled operations.

Kirsty Williams has responded to a highly critical report from the Royal College of Surgeons that highlights «dangerous» conditions in the University Hospital of Wales, with patients «dying regularly» while waiting for heart operations.

As the country grapples with the addiction epidemic, one Capital Region hospital is offering opioid - free surgery for a select number of operations.

But when the hospital submitted the names of the two banks to the Controller and Accountant General's Department for approval, issues were raised about weaknesses in UniBank's operations in two other hospitals.

Melanie Vandyke was among the first dozen people to undergo laser epilepsy surgery at Wake Forest Baptist, and although she was discharged from the hospital the following day it took much longer than that for her to regard the operation as a success.

When a clogged artery landed Peter Szolovits in the hospital for a coronary bypass operation in mid-October, he noticed a few incongruities other patients might not have.

In Scotland, the Health minister called for hospitals to consider the suspension of mesh operations until more evidence is available.

This novel technology is also highly suitable for confined spaces such as bomb shelters or bunkers, where removing moisture from the air is critical for human comfort, as well as for sustainable operation of delicate equipment in areas such as field hospitals, armoured personnel carriers, and operation decks of navy ships as well as aircrafts,» explained Assoc Prof Chua.

People who received prescriptions for opioid painkillers in the months before elective abdominal operations had longer hospital stays, and a higher chance of needing follow - up care in a hospital or rehabilitation facility, than patients who weren't taking such medications before they had the same operations, the study finds.

They also were more likely to end up back in the hospital or to go to a rehabilitation facility within 30 days of the operation — except for those taking the lowest - possible doses.

In addition to postoperative A-fib, researchers are studying, for example, what factors can improve outcomes of surgeries performed on weekends; how many rectal cancer operations a hospital needs to perform for the best results; and whether having a trauma department confers a beneficial «halo effect» on patient outcomes across the board.

The patients who had been prescribed opioids before surgery spent an average of an extra half a day in the hospital after their operations, the researchers found — even after they adjusted for a wide range of co-existing factors such as medical conditions and demographic characteristics.

In the Christmas issue of The BMJ, surgeons at the University Hospital of Wales examine the intertwined history of music and healing, and suggest tunes for surgeons and theatre staff to play — and to avoid — during operations.

In new findings published online in the journal Annals of Surgery on December 19, 2014, researchers determined the hospital costs and risk of death for emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon resection.

Though all of the 1,051 hospitals included in the data had similar patient characteristics for these procedures, indicating minimal differences in patient candidacy rates for minimally invasive surgery, the researchers» findings show considerable variability in what proportion of these operations were actually minimally invasive surgery.

The Johns Hopkins team analyzed the data to identify how many minimally invasive surgery procedures hospitals could be performing based on standard qualifications for four different operations: appendectomy, colectomy and hysterectomy, all procedures for which minimally invasive surgery has shown significant advantages over open procedures, and lung lobectomy, an operation for which the jury is still out on the risks versus benefits.

For example, comparing outcomes of bypass surgery in a cardiac unit at an urban facility performing thousands of the procedures per year to those of an under - staffed rural hospital that rarely does the operation would be comparing apples to oranges, Dr. Moss said.

«Yet, I have doubts on its actual efficacy for the nosocomial infections,» she says, «In a hospital, the transfer of bacteria may occur because of the hands of the staff, for not properly sterilized medical devices, or for infection of chirurgical sites during the operations.»

The winning doctor has worked at the hospital for more than 30 years and has conducted thousands of operations.

The study results showed that unadjusted complication rates were higher in hospitals in the NIS for 7 out of the 11 operations, but unadjusted mortality rates in every procedure were lower in ACS NSQIP hospitals, in comparison with NIS.

«This form of graphene is extremely resistant to biofilm formation, which has promise for places like water - treatment plants, oil - drilling operations, hospitals and ocean applications like underwater pipes that are sensitive to fouling,» says Tour.

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