Sentences with phrase «hospital patients in need»

You may refer emergency patients as well as hospital patients in need of overnight monitoring.

Not exact matches

It's a marketplace handcuffed by certificate - of - need laws that limit the number of MRI centers and hospital beds in communities, granting providers regional monopolies, and preventing insurers from clinching discounts by offering to send patients to the providers willing to lower their rates in exchange for more business.

Analytica say this feature alone could save Hospitals thousands of dollars in lost nurse time by avoiding the need for multiple return visits to a patient's bed to check if the medicine has passed through the drip before turning it back on again.

But surgeons who swear by their robotic arms tend to return to the same words of praise: They tout the «speed of recovery» for patients, who typically don't need to spend days or weeks in a hospital as they might after traditional open surgery.

They found wide variation in the types of patients hospitals determined needed intensive care.

«Patients are one example, but also doctors and nurses that have relationships with different hospital systems or anyone who needs to log in or interface with different healthcare applications.»

«Today we see the Christy Clark government spending money to re-announce a hospital plan that's been in the works since 2015, while Kamloops patients are waiting for hours in walk - in clinics and vulnerable seniors in understaffed care homes are not getting the attention they need,» Horgan said.

This chaotic process exposed a desperate need for a centralized data hub where descriptions of unidentified patients could be uploaded and accessed by all area hospitals in emergencies, Keesee said.

Repeated hospitalizations bring demoralization, particularly in instances in which some hospital staff are inadequately trained to meet the full range of patient needs.

If not, their contacts with the hospital staff will probably be frustratingly brief and totally inadequate to give them the amount of help needed in handling their own crisis and in relating constructively with their patient.

For helping many alcoholics, I am convinced that we shall need far more multilevel institutions that serve only alcoholics (through bed care, day - hospital care, out - patient care, etc.) as well as an increase in facilities that are part of general and mental hospitals and other kinds of institutions.

The government should not let a hospital stay in business if it can not provide the medical care that patients need and would like to have.

Smart, there isn't a hospital in this country that turns away a patient in need of medical attention.

«Overwhelmingly positive and consistent feedback from our patients has confirmed we are meeting that need for immediate care without having to go to a hospital emergency room, which can be traumatic in and of itself ««regardless of the severity of the injury,» says STAT MED's Dr. Allan Drabinsky, another of STAT MED's experienced emergency medicine physicians.

Patient - controlled epidural analgesia is currently only available in one - fifth of hospitals in the UK due to the expensive costs of the equipment needed.

The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.

also scattered in the google reviews: a terrible story about a baby who died due to their negligence, the revelation that when they have a disaster transfer, they don't take them to the hospital down the road as they tell patients, and a mom who was rejected as a client because she didn't have time for their full indoctrination procedure because she traveled for her work and would need to have some appointments with another care provider in another state.

Certified Nurse Midwife Kipp Bovey of The Women's Center at Copley Hospital talks about how she collaborates with patients in choosing birth control to best meet their needs and lifestyle.

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.

Although national and regional organizations can take the lead in setting the agenda regarding the safe prevention of primary cesarean delivery, such an agenda will need to be prioritized at the level of practices, hospitals, health care systems, and, of course, patients.

In a hospital birth the two patients each have their own doctor (OB [or CNM] and, if needed, neonatologist or pediatrician) and nurse and / or other assistants (e.g. residents), plus a whole team ready to run in and perform whatever emergency procedures may be needed at a moment's noticIn a hospital birth the two patients each have their own doctor (OB [or CNM] and, if needed, neonatologist or pediatrician) and nurse and / or other assistants (e.g. residents), plus a whole team ready to run in and perform whatever emergency procedures may be needed at a moment's noticin and perform whatever emergency procedures may be needed at a moment's notice.

Palos Community Hospital officials have maintained that the center is needed in the community because it would provide continuing care to patients who need cardiac rehabilitation, physical therapy and other specialized exercise programs.

The Public Accounts Committee Reports in 2000, 2005 and the most recent, «Reducing Healthcare Associated Infection in Hospitals in England, Fifty - second Report of Session 2008 - 09», and the influential «Dr. Fosters Hospital Guide - Focus on Patient Safety» in 2009, outlined serious concerns about quality of patient care and the need to combat infPatient Safety» in 2009, outlined serious concerns about quality of patient care and the need to combat infpatient care and the need to combat infection.

The Royal College of Physicians believes that there is an urgent need to review workforce patterns in hospitals to ensure that medical in - patients receive direct input from consultant physicians on a seven day a week basis.

«During my tenure as Governor, I have held the line on the rate of cost escalation for health care providers and managed care plans; implemented reimbursement reforms to right - size hospital inpatient reimbursement; made investments in critically needed, less costly outpatient and primary care services; and implemented measures to make New York Medicaid a smarter purchaser of prescription drugs and transportation services for patients.

Creates a new demonstration program aimed at designing a new model of care that would divert patients who do not need in - hospital detoxification, but still need treatment, to appropriate services and facilities.

Under the need - based formula recommended by the Medicaid Redesign Team in 2013, hospitals serving a higher concentration of Medicaid patients were meant to receive richer funding from the pool — as a way of directing more funds to institutions serving poorer populations.

The NHS, Willetts said, had to show it was «open to help and then to adopting them for UK patients if successful» in order to «persuade investors to fund these innovations... We need to make it much easier to show «proof of concept» in a hospital environment.

ALBANY, Jan. 31 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer proposed to radically restructure aid to New York's sprawling health care industry in his first budget Wednesday, saying that the system props up failing hospitals and too often overlooks patients» needs, while consuming roughly a third of the state's budget.

The number of hospitals forced to turn away patients in need of emergency care rose by 24 % in the last year, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York needs a Medicaid funding infusion first requested in 2012 to support hospital overhauls and expanded primary medical care to meet growing patient demand under the state's new health insurance exchange.

In the paper, the researchers wrote that the patients» viral load at the beginning of the trial «was strongly predictive» of both dying and how long someone needed to be in the hospitaIn the paper, the researchers wrote that the patients» viral load at the beginning of the trial «was strongly predictive» of both dying and how long someone needed to be in the hospitain the hospital.

She walks faster toward her job in the Hospital Center, where her patients are poor and in desperate need of her skills.

They found wide variation in the types of patients hospitals determined needed intensive care.

«Future studies should examine which people or patients may need to limit their intake of saturated fat,» assistant professor Simon Nitter Dankel points out, who led the study together with the director of the laboratory clinics, professor Gunnar Mellgren, at Haukeland university hospital in Bergen, Norway.

«Given the current healthcare landscape of unknown costs and insurance, as doctors we needed to evolve and provide patients with an option that doesn't involve lengthy time in a hospital bed.

They wrote that a common practice in hospitals — a daily review of a patient's continued need for antibiotics — must become more common in primary care as well, because that is where some 85 percent of prescriptions are written.

«If the absolute risk increases of 1.51 percent for in - hospital mortality and 3.54 percent for major postoperative complications were modifiable, they would be consistent with the number needed to treat of 59 patients for in - hospital mortality and 28 patients for major postoperative complications.

Ulrich, for instance, writes about «the need for research to establish scientific guidelines to help interior designers select art that is reliably stress reducing and physiologically supportive...» But he is talking only about art in hospitals and in other medical contexts, where he believes the sole critical standard is whether art «improves outcomes in patients, and if it doesn't, it's bad art.»

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

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.

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.

With the instructions being transmitted over a wireless connection, the patients didn't need to leave the hospital and were able to control the robot in Millán's lab at EPFL, 100 kilometers away.

A new narrative review authored by Carl Streed Jr., MD, at Brigham and Women's Hospital, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, discusses how more research is needed to better understand cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD risk factors in transgender patients receiving long term cross-sex hormone therapy.

A study from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that in morbidly obese patients, bariatric surgery performed prior to a total hip or knee replacement can reduce in - hospital and 90 - day postoperative complications and improve patient health, but it does not reduce the risk of needing a revision Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that in morbidly obese patients, bariatric surgery performed prior to a total hip or knee replacement can reduce in - hospital and 90 - day postoperative complications and improve patient health, but it does not reduce the risk of needing a revision hospital and 90 - day postoperative complications and improve patient health, but it does not reduce the risk of needing a revision surgery.

And for that all hospitals need to be prepared not just to diagnose patients in a timely fashion but also to quickly and safely isolate them.

«Further studies are needed to elucidate whether vitamin supplementation is effective in migraine patients in general, and whether patients with mild deficiency are more likely to benefit from supplementation,» says Suzanne Hagler, MD, a Headache Medicine fellow in the division of Neurology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.

A new study indicates that a classification system based on patient symptoms and basic lab tests can reduce the need for diagnostic imaging, hospital admissions, and surgery in patients with suspected appendicitis.

Commenting on Tong Yuan's treatment for Parkinson's disease, Oliver Cooper, director of the Stem Cell Facility of the Neuroregeneration Institute at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and a specialist in Parkinson's disease, says, «The products offered by Tong Yuan may provide anecdotal, poorly controlled, transient improvements in the patients, but Parkinson's - disease patients need long - term therapies.»

The patients who survive often become debilitated during their hospital stay and need to spend time in a rehabilitation facility.