Sentences with phrase «hospital than patients»

Cirrhosis patients are more than five times more likely to pick up infections in hospital than patients with other chronic conditions, due to reduced immunity which is a well - recognized feature of the disease.

Not exact matches

More than 40 million patients with respiratory, gastric and other diseases were cured after taking the potion on doctors» prescriptions, according to the official report, which stated that the farm was selling it to more than 4,000 hospitals across the country.

The hospital says the command center has shaved more than an hour off the time it takes to dispatch an ambulance to another facility and that emergency room patients are assigned a bed 30 % faster than before.

MedStar operates 10 hospitals in the D.C. / Baltimore region, including at Georgetown University, and serviced more than 4.5 million patient visits in 2015.

Regulatory and social issues could also be factors many hospital patients will want a human nurse rather than a robot to care for them when they wake up after surgery.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

Black Medicare patients are being readmitted to hospitals at a much higher rate than white patients, according to a recent study.

Neighborhood hospitals can provide much lower costs for patients than traditional community hospitals.

The blaze shut down schools and forced more than 200 patients at two city hospitals to evacuate.

Upon discharge from the hospital, more than 25 percent of SCI patients have complete paraplegia, meaning they are unable to feel or move their legs; more than 20 percent suffer from complete tetraplegia, or paralysis in all four limbs and the torso.

Apple recently launched a collaboration with more than three dozen hospitals to help patients gain access to their medical records on their phones.

Patients could only use the choice program if they lived more than 40 miles from the nearest VA hospital or if they could not get an appointment from their local VA facility within 30 days.

Controlling for the share of a hospital's admissions of low - income patients (with Medicaid insurance) or its share of surgical admissions all added more information than Yelp ratings alone.

The command center pulls in information from more than a dozen data streams in real time, including patient health records, emergency dispatch service updates, lab results, and tabs on how many hospital beds are available at any given time.

Satwani — who hasn't delivered the CAR - T therapy but is heading up the program at Columbia, one of the 32 sites Novartis will use — said patients would need to be monitored closely for about a month, meaning they'd need to be less than a two - hour drive from their hospital.

With Polaris as our largest investor, we expanded Ascend's hospital chain to 5 states; our patient bed count went up more than 8 times; and we generated $ 200 million in annual revenue and $ 60 million in profits — all in 4 years.

The patient died at the hospital less than an hour after she arrived and her twins died in her womb.

Tranquilizing drugs play the major role, drastically reducing the need for physical restraints, rendering many patients amenable to treatment, and often allowing them to leave the hospital much sooner than would otherwise be feasible.

The most shocking fact revealed by the Joint Commission's report was that «More than half of the patients in most State hospitals receive no active treatment.»

I saw more than my share of patients die for no reason in hospital during my career.

For psychiatrists who are competent (or who can convince potential patients of their competence), private practice has been a more lucrative alternative to hospital or center work ever since the public accepted psychiatrists as experts on the problems of living rather than merely on psychoses.

At the Topeka State Hospital alone, the number of resident patients in their 60s was reduced from about 600 to less than 50 in only 20 years.

New research published today by the Campaign for Better Hospital Food shows that at least 1 in every 4 hospital meals (26 %) served to patients in NHS hospitals are likely to be left uneaten and thrown in the bin, a figure higher than previously recHospital Food shows that at least 1 in every 4 hospital meals (26 %) served to patients in NHS hospitals are likely to be left uneaten and thrown in the bin, a figure higher than previously rechospital meals (26 %) served to patients in NHS hospitals are likely to be left uneaten and thrown in the bin, a figure higher than previously recognised.

«Rather than marketing products directly to consumers, the companies used cash grants, free formula and other baby products to persuade hospitals and physicians to endorse a particular formula to their patients,» Doyle said.

For more than 10 years, I taught childbirth education classes and provided in - patient and out - patient lactation services at a small community hospital.

Told me that OB - led hospital births «do more harm than they do good» and that she believes it is her job to «protect» her patients from standard hospital care.

The last time Naperville hosted a Healing Field of Honor, in 2009, supporters raised more than $ 100,000 for the Fisher House at Hines V.A. Hospital, which offers housing for families of military patients receiving medical care at Hines.

Each patient she loses to hospital birth is a fraction more than 2 % of her annual income.

Surrrrre the outcomes in Ethiopia are better than the USA... That's why my patients from Ethiopia were so excited to get to have their babies in a hospital.

Sometimes there are good reasons, but sometimes the reasons are related to insurance rates, or demands on doctors» time (some hospitals require an OB attending a VBAC to be in house the entire time the VBAC is laboring, and few doctors want to do this) rather than the most medically appropriate choice or patient safety.

Consider taking childbirth classes outside of the hospital setting as these courses tend to lean to influencing you to be a good patient rather than teaching your all your options.

So even when homebirth midwives stick to low risk patients, homebirth has a death rate 320 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

I'd love to know your thoughts (assuming you don't post and run) on WHY, if a disaster does happen at home, you run to the hospital to see the evil disease ridden doctor who obviously cares more about golf than patients.

> So even when homebirth midwives stick to loss risk patients, homebirth has a death rate 320 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

Our more than 30 board - certified anesthesiologists work with doctors throughout Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children to make every patient's hospital stay safer and more comfHospital for Children to make every patient's hospital stay safer and more comfhospital stay safer and more comfortable.

When we LOOK at reality...... when we REALLY LOOK closely at who's life is snuffed from EXISTENCE...... MORE PATIENTS DIE UNDER HOSPITAL CARE than the non-professional quazie care.

That conveniently elides the fact that nurses, anesthesiologists and other obstetricians ARE present at the hospital and emergencies can be handles by doctors other than the patient's personal physician.

Tapping into two issues affecting the hospital experience of young parents: the quality of care for the mother and newborn, and patients» rights • By HANNAH KATSMAN When Gaia (last name withheld) was expecting her second baby, she hoped for a better hospital experience than she had with her first son, who was born prematurely.

For more than a century, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center has pioneered health care for pediatric patients.

Floating Hospital for Children has a well - deserved reputation for excellence in pediatric training based on more than one hundred years of experience in patient care, education and research.

For surgery, Parnell recommends going to a facility that offers up - front «package» prices for self - pay patients, such as the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and Regency Healthcare, where prices are typically much less than what is charged at most hospitals.

For a time, before we knew that doctors were spreading germs from patient to patient in the hospital, home birth was actually FAR SAFER than hospital birth (at the end of the 1800's and early 1900's).

Collins called for Congressional hearings after the FDA announced that more than 700 patients from the V.A. Western New York hospital in Buffalo could have been infected with hepatitis and HIV.

Hospitals use these medications for in - patients only, so those drugs operate in a largely different market than the rogue prescription drugs, heroin and fentanyl fueling the nationwide opioid epidemic, which claimed 268 lives in Erie County alone last year.

According to the legislation, safety - net hospitals would be defined as those where at least half of patients are on Medicaid or uninsured, 40 percent of inpatient discharges are covered by Medicaid and no more than 25 percent of patients are commercially insured.

Judy Wessler, a community activist with NYSNA, said that New York University Langone Hospital gets 50 dollars more per Medicaid reimbursement than Bellevue Hospital, although Bellevue cares for more Medicaid patients.

In a letter to Mental Health Commissioner Ann Marie Sullivan, more than a half - dozen local lawmakers from Manhattan and The Bronx say they oppose the plan by NewYork - Presbyterian to «de-certify» all 30 in - patient psychiatric beds at its Allen Hospital, in Inwood.

Officials at Long Island's only veterans hospital kept local members of Congress in the dark over problems that have closed the facility's operating rooms for more than two months, forcing scores of surgery patients to seek care in centers as far away as the Bronx and Manhattan.

She wrote: «The Mid Staffs scandal, and the problems throughout the NHS that it has exposed, have one thing in common: Lives lost in our hospitals because of an unaccountable central management and political organisation, more concerned with fixing the statistics for dispatch - box convenience than looking after patients, which has systematically stifled of the voices of those on the front line: both patients» groups concerned for loved ones, and doctors and nurses concerned for their patients.

Yes — some areas are in danger of losing primary emergency care, but in most areas of the state hospitals are beating each other over the head for patients because there are more hospital rooms than people dying to get into them.