Sentences with phrase «in health care quality»

Researchers investigating decision - making in health care quality and defense, for example, will find significant interest and funding from U.S. government agencies.

Not exact matches

The 71 - year - old nonprofit — it's a health plan, a hospital system, and a physicians» group all in one — provides high - quality and relatively affordable care to some 10 million members in eight states.

And we certainly wear it in terms of accessibility, quality and safety of our health care system.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

This applies to food, too: Buying quality organic food can nourish you in ways that fill you up more than the prepackaged, processed stuff and potentially save you money on health - care expenses in the future, since you're taking good care of yourself.

For months in 2013, his family struggled to find him quality care as his health began to deteriorate.

Today, her nonprofit organization, Care 2 Communities offers high - quality, affordable health care through clinics that begin to sustain themselves in just a few yeCare 2 Communities offers high - quality, affordable health care through clinics that begin to sustain themselves in just a few yecare through clinics that begin to sustain themselves in just a few years.

Hometeam is a health care technology startup that pairs older adults with quality, in - home health aides.

According to the Health Care Cost Institute, about 43 % of all spending by individuals with employer - sponsored insurance in 2011 was shoppable, meaning that it was spent on medical services whose prices could be significantly lowered without compromising quality.

No matter how the federal health care debate turns out, developing more reliable health care guides for consumers has the potential improve care quality, saving lives and eliminating billions of dollars in needless costs.

Those are fairly lofty claims (health care costs don't really come down in tandem with improving care quality).

And it's no surprise to many health experts that the company is focusing a lot of its attention on employer - sponsored health care, and in particular on the challenge of driving down costs without reducing the quality of care.

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

Our service is focused on multiple social determinants of health, and delivers the quality of care and on - time certainty that medical facilities need in order to increase throughput and reduce wait times.»

The issue is not solely a 21st - century concern: In 1915, Henry Ford became increasingly worried about the quality of health care available to his growing work force in Detroit, so he opened the Henry Ford HospitaIn 1915, Henry Ford became increasingly worried about the quality of health care available to his growing work force in Detroit, so he opened the Henry Ford Hospitain Detroit, so he opened the Henry Ford Hospital.

«BRAC seeks to experiment on improving quality at local health facilities: Data show that obstetrical care at public facilities in Uganda is very weak, leading to high maternal mortality and risks to newborns.

KKR's Health Care Strategic Growth strategy leverages KKR's deep health care expertise, sector relationships, track record of scaling companies, and extensive portfolio to identify and invest in businesses with innovative products or services and high - quality management Health Care Strategic Growth strategy leverages KKR's deep health care expertise, sector relationships, track record of scaling companies, and extensive portfolio to identify and invest in businesses with innovative products or services and high - quality management teCare Strategic Growth strategy leverages KKR's deep health care expertise, sector relationships, track record of scaling companies, and extensive portfolio to identify and invest in businesses with innovative products or services and high - quality management health care expertise, sector relationships, track record of scaling companies, and extensive portfolio to identify and invest in businesses with innovative products or services and high - quality management tecare expertise, sector relationships, track record of scaling companies, and extensive portfolio to identify and invest in businesses with innovative products or services and high - quality management teams.

For health plans, that means gathering input from clinicians, actuaries, claims departments, pharmaceutical benefits managers, and countless other functions, in the development of a high - quality product that is not only tailored to suit the varied health care needs of today's consumer, but is also affordable.

How Canada ensures it provides a universal, affordable, and high quality health care system that accommodates technological innovation and changes in delivery over the next few decades is a particularly important challenge.

With a mission to provide quality eyeglasses and expert eye care services, My Eyelab has become a leader in the eye health industry by developing an accessible alternative to over-priced eye care services.

DHS Group started in 1997 working with health plans, helping them measure the quality of care through HEDIS measures.

Moderator: Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS, System Patient Safety Officer and Director, Center for Advancing Patient Safety, Stanford Health Care, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Dr. Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and internationally - recognized expert in Patient Safety, Quality, and Innovation.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

Social Policy Endowment: Boosts output and quality in tackling critical social policy concerns such as education, Aboriginal issues, and health care

«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.

We blame the NRA or the lack of quality mental health care in this country.

Among this group, top reasons for leaving were working conditions (for example staffing levels and workload), cited by 44 per cent, a change in personal circumstances (such as ill health), cited by 28 per cent and disillusionment with the quality of care provided to patients, cited by 27 per cent.

Europeans and Americans head to India for high - quality and inexpensive medical care while the Indian poor struggle with the most privatized health system in the world.

Those critics who say that other countries are ahead of us in «guaranteeing quality health care for everyone» overlook the fact that the definition of quality in those countries does not include the panoply of high - tech medicine increasingly taken for granted in America.

Unclear what, exactly, President Obama meant in his Inaugural Address when he said, «We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.»

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

A report published this week by the Irish Health Information and Quality Authority into the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, the woman who died while seventeen weeks pregnant in an Irish hospital, has determined that she failed to receive the most basic of care and that numerous....

Health care in this country costs more than anywhere else on earth, yet, our quality of care and accessibility lags behind all the rest of the developed nations.

In particular, organic agriculture is intended to produce high quality, nutritious food that contributes to preventive health care and well - being.

Industrial Trading Solutions Ltd, formed in 2002, began as a principle distributor of Alfa Laval supplying the british market with high quality flow equipment products to facilitate the needs of the dairy, food, beverage, brewery, pharmaceutical and health care industries.

Because the Physicians at Aspen Women's Center care about the quality of their patient's deliveries and are very concerned about the welfare and health of your unborn child, we will not participate in a «Birth Contract», a Doulah Assisted, or a Bradley Method delivery.

The Joint Commission was founded in 1951 and seeks to continuously improve health care for the public by evaluating healthcare organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value.

The programme of work on patient safety looks at both the translation of novel technologies into health care and innovative ways of organising services differently to bridge «gaps» in care and improve quality and safety for patients.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and aHealth Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and ahealth inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

Kate has been instrumental in promoting a safety, quality agenda in health care for women and infants, and developing collaborative models between midwives and obstetricians to engender integration of home birth into the maternity care system.

In 2008, Childbirth Connection convened a Vision Team of innovators in maternity care delivery and health systems design to define the fundamental values, principles, and goals for a high - quality, high - value maternity care systeIn 2008, Childbirth Connection convened a Vision Team of innovators in maternity care delivery and health systems design to define the fundamental values, principles, and goals for a high - quality, high - value maternity care systein maternity care delivery and health systems design to define the fundamental values, principles, and goals for a high - quality, high - value maternity care system.

In 2000, the IOM published their report summarizing information regarding errors made in health care and offered recommendations for improving quality of carIn 2000, the IOM published their report summarizing information regarding errors made in health care and offered recommendations for improving quality of carin health care and offered recommendations for improving quality of care.

A longitudinal study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development concluded in 2007 that «although parenting was a stronger and more consistent predictor of children's development than early child ‐ care experience, higher quality care predicted higher vocabulary scores and more exposure to center care predicted more teacher ‐ reported externalizing problems.

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.

Developed by a multidisciplinary group of academics, researchers, women and child health advocates, clinicians and policy - makers, the collaborative approach to this series has resulted in the creation of a framework for quality maternal and newborn care.

«The course provides a quality educational opportunity for health care professionals who may not have the time or flexibility in their schedules to attend additional symposiums or lectures.»

«The ATSNJ hopes that these courses will become a staple of education within the interscholastic and recreational sports community,» stated Eric Nussbaum ABOUT THE ATHLETIC TRAINERS» SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY ATSNJ, Inc. consists of licensed athletic trainers, physicians and other allied health care professionals whose goal is to promote quality healthcare for athletes in any setting.

«Even though there is yet to be a concussion law passed in our state we believe it is extremely important for us as an association to provide a quality educational program like Concussion Wise ™ to the public and the health care community.

The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), established in 1982, is a professional membership organization that promotes excellence in midwifery practice, endorses diversity in educational backgrounds and practice styles, and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality health care and improving outcomes for women, babies, families, and communities.