Sentences with phrase «joint commissions»

The State Department offers a list of doctors and hospitals, as do the International Society of Travel Medicine and Joint Commission International; the latter reviews hospital safety worldwide.

Mexico also has six Joint Commission International - accredited private hospitals — the world standard for hospital accreditation.

This seems to be where the Commission is leaving the U.S. economy as it waits for the recommendations of the Joint Commission to Roll Back Social Security, or whatever the name of Mr. Obama's Republicanized Democratic commission is more formally called.

The «Mental Health Counselors» (called for in the Joint Commission's Report), a group between the psychiatrist and the «care - taking» professions, already exists to the extent that clergymen are effective counselors.

The report of the Joint Commission is brutally frank on this issue:

Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health.

Of all state and local government mental hospitals in our country, only 29 percent are approved by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.

It is contained in Action for Mental Health, the final report of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health.

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.»

Action for Mental Health (by the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health) gives the background for the development of mental health programs and suggests the importance of clergymen in the mental health field.

In 1955, in response to continued public interest, Congress enacted the Mental Health Study Act, under which the historic Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health was appointed.

The Food Industry Research and Development Institute (FIRDI) is a non-profit legal entity established in 1965 with financial support from the Canners» Association of Taiwan, CIECD (Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development) and JCRR (Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction).

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 group developed the first set of national standards for birth centers, conducted a two - year pilot program to develop and test the optimum mechanism for evaluating the quality of birth centers, and consulted with the Commissioner on the JACHO (currently the Joint Commission) on the best structures for the CABC (www.birthcenteraccreditation.org/about-commission-accreditation-birth-centers, 2013).

The history of the Joint Commission can be read here.

A periodic update of the 45 hours CLEC education, essential to best practice and required by several certification agencies like Magnet Hospital Accreditation and The Joint Commission.

«We would like nothing better than to stand shoulder to shoulder with you at a (City) Council meeting and say we are together on this,» Scott McKibbin, joint commission and Frontier Park Committee member told the group, which met at the Naper Boulevard Library.

The Joint Commission, an organization that accredits and certifies health care organizations and programs in the United States, has identified the concept of bundles of care such as those in the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding as a promising strategy to improve the care provided to patients.»

The Canadian Government recommends meat and other iron - rich foods as baby's first foods and base this recommendation on a joint commission to examine evidence - based feeding practices which included the Canadian Pediatric Society, Dieticians of Canada, and the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada.

In another development, the International Joint Commission sent a letter Nov. 14 to the United States and Canadian governments proposing that each nation designate a «federal lead agency «to coordinate activities dealing with high water and erosion on the Great Lakes.

The recently - released «clarification» on PC - 05a, the controversial performance measure of The Joint Commission (TJC)'s Perinatal Care data element related to «exclusive breast milk feeding» during the hospital stay, has completely...

At the same time, we have also learned that FIB has continued its divisive crusade by launching a campaign that urges mothers to complain to hospitals and The Joint Commission about the early care they have received related to infant feeding.

Yet, the acting director for the hospital joint commission acknowledged that, «If somebody decides they want to overcome a system, they can probably figure out how to do it.»

Accredited by The Joint Commission.

If you have taken your journey to midwifery along a path that has you employed in a hospital, you are likely familiar with the Joint Commission.

USBC — Implementing The Joint Commission Perinatal Care Core Measure on Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding

The Joint Commission today announced that it will expand performance measurement requirements for accredited general medical / surgical hospitals from four to six core measure sets.

The additional requirements, which are part of The Joint Commission's ORYX ® performance measurement initiative to stimulate...

Effectiveness: When old practices are replaced with the Ten Steps, facilities are well - positioned to improve their performance in measures such as those assessed by the CDC's Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care survey and the Joint Commission's Perinatal Care Core Measure Set.

When the new year rolls around, all Joint Commission - accredited hospitals that have 300 or more births per year will be required to collect data and report on all...

In 2014 The Joint Commission required reporting of this measure by all hospitals with ≥ 1,100 births per year, and as of January 2016, will require reporting by all hospitals with ≥ 300 births per year, thus encompassing approximately 80 % of all birth hospitals.

In recognizing the provision of non — breast milk fluids to breastfed infants as a quality - of - care issue, in 2010, The Joint Commission, a major organization that accredits and certifies U.S. hospitals, added exclusive breast milk feeding during the newborn's entire hospitalization as a new quality of care measure.

The matter is under review by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, a move Klein called for after the allegation was first made public.

Creelan, in the interview, questioned the stipend system, saying both chambers should be investigated by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Percoco claimed he earned as much as $ 125,000 in consulting fees, according to financial disclosure documents released on Monday by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The incident is now under review by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Klein on Thursday called for an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics into the claim, made by former staffer Erica Vladimer.

And then there's the allegation leveled by a former staffer that Klein forcibly kissed her in 2015, a claim the Bronx lawmaker denies and has called for an investigation by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

An inkling of the movement for constitutional reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 1983: 1).

Republicans called for a Joint Commission on Public Ethics investigation when Duffy announced he had interviewed at the RBA and it's likely many of these same Republicans will call for another ethics probe if Duffy takes the job.

Amid ongoing concerns being raised over an advisory opinion that would require consultants to inform lobbying regulators when they seek to influence an editorial board's opinion, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics has released a set of frequently asked questions on the regulation.

The fine stemmed from the company's use of a third - party service incorrectly reporting lobbying figures to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics as the company pushed back against New York City's efforts to curtail its operations.

Compounded with all this is the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal, simmering since August, that exploded when the Joint Commission on Public Ethics released its report detailing disturbing allegations of abuse and harasment, along with criticism of how Speaker Sheldon Silver handled the case.

Ride - share companies in the last several years have assembled a team of high - profile and politically connected lobbying and consulting organizations to influence city and state government in New York, records at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics show.

The removal occurred AFTER TU reporters Jimmy Vielkind and Jim Odato had already photocopied the document, which they in a box of notebooks that had been kept by Ellen Biben, who ran the Public Integrity Bureau when Cuomo was attorney general, was elevated to the postition of state inspector general when he became governor and is now the executive director of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The Legislative Ethics Commission formally charged ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez today with a $ 330,000 fine for breaking the public officers» law after a Joint Commission on Public Ethics report found he sexually harassed legislative aides.

The dramatic reduction in donors coincided with the development of disclosure rules for lobbyists from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which ultimately backed a relatively narrow look - back period.

The report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found the lobbying in Albany and around the state accounted for a record $ 226 million last year.

An opinion from the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found Lee would not have to reimburse the state for rides on state aircraft as long as it is being used for state business.

The International Joint Commission Board, which controls the water level on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, voted to continue record - high water releases at the Moses - Saunders dam in Massena until further notice.