Sentences with phrase «of access to health care under»

The die - in represented people who could die from lack of access to health care under the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which Rep. Long supports.

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Adequate health care and the right to security during sickness is guaranteed under Article 25 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights, however these rights are regularly violated and, for those in our nation least able to afford it, access to affordable health care often remains out of reach.

The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).

Everyone has the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical treatment under the conditions established by national laws and practices.

Under Governor Cuomo's direction, New York State is striving to ensure that all women have access to vital health care services during pregnancy and is undertaking a comprehensive review of clinical and systemic factors leading to maternal mortality.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

«Under my leadership, the HHC will continue its mission of ensuring New Yorkers have access to quality health care options — from major hospitals to neighborhood clinics — no matter where they live.»

The hospital is one of the nine, being built by Euroget De-Invest S.A, a member of the Euroget Group of Egypt, under the Turn - Key project, to increase access to specialised health care services.

This same lack of health care access makes poor children who are under - vaccinated potentially more vulnerable to health risks as rates of vaccine - preventable diseases continue to rise.

The faster rate of improvement in lung function and nutrition in the United States, the researchers suggested, may be due to earlier implementation of newborn screening or quality improvement initiatives for the disease and improved access to medical care under the Medicaid Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the United States.

Food insecurity, lack of access to health care (including international food aid), and social, cultural, and economic class, all play a major role in explaining the prevalence of under - nutrition.

Business Development: Brokering various business dealings that further the diversification of Indian economies Developing and accessing commercial financial programs and services for tribal governments, including tax - exempt offerings and federally - guaranteed housing loans Serving as issuer or underwriter's counsel in tribal bond issuances Ensuring tribal compliance with Bank Secrecy Act and other federal financial regulatory requirements Handling federal and state income, excise, B&O, property and other tax matters for tribes and tribal businesses Chartering tribal business enterprises under tribal, state and federal law Registering and protecting tribal trademarks and copyrights Negotiating franchise agreements for restaurants and retail stores on Indian reservations Custom - tailoring construction contracts for tribes and general contractors Helping secure federal SBA 8 (a) and other contracting preferences for Indian - owned businesses Facilitating contractual relations between tribes and tribal casinos, and gaming vendors Building tribal workers» compensation and self - insurance programs Government Relations: Handling state and federal regulatory matters in the areas of tribal gaming, environmental and cultural resources, workers» compensation, taxation, health care and education Negotiating tribal - state gaming compacts and fuel and cigarette compacts, and inter-local land use and law enforcement agreements Advocacy before the Washington State Gambling Commission, Washington Indian Gaming Association and National Indian Gaming Commission Preparing tribal codes and regulations, including tribal court, commercial, gaming, taxation, energy development, environmental and cultural resources protection, labor & employment, and workers» compensation laws Developing employee handbooks, manuals and personnel policies Advocacy in areas of treaty rights, gaming, jurisdiction, taxation, environmental and cultural resource protection Brokering fee - to - trust and related real estate and jurisdictional transactions Litigation & Appellate Services: Handling complex Indian law litigation, including commercial, labor & employment, tax, land use, treaty rights, natural and cultural resource matters Litigating tribal trust mismanagement claims against the United States, and evaluating tribal and individual property claims under the Indian Claims Limitation Act Defending tribes and tribal insureds from tort claims brought against them in tribal, state and federal courts, including defense tenders pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act Assisting tribal insureds in insurance coverage negotiations, and litigation Representing individual tribal members in tribal and state civil and criminal proceedings, including BIA prosecutions and Indian probate proceedings Assisting tribal governments with tribal, state and federal court appeals, including the preparation of amicus curiae briefs Our Indian law & gaming attorneys collaborate to publish the quarterly «Indian Legal Advisor ``, designed to provide Indian Country valuable information about legal and political developments affecting tribal rights.

Under the final rule, a covered entity may deny access to an individual if a licensed health care professional determines that the access requested is reasonably likely to endanger the life or physical safety of the individual or another person.

Comment: It was observed that under the proposed regulation, legal representatives with «power of attorney» for matters unrelated to health care would have unauthorized access to confidential medical records.

If the individual has requested a review of a denial under paragraph (a)(4) of this section, the covered entity must designate a licensed health care professional, who was not directly involved in the denial to review the decision to deny access.

If access is denied on a ground permitted under paragraph (a)(3) of this section, the individual has the right to have the denial reviewed by a licensed health care professional who is designated by the covered entity to act as a reviewing official and who did not participate in the original decision to deny.

(v) An individual's access may be denied if the protected health information was obtained from someone other than a health care provider under a promise of confidentiality and the access requested would be reasonably likely to reveal the source of the information.

In the NPRM we proposed to permit covered health care providers and health plans to deny an individual access to inspect and copy protected health information about them for five reasons: (1) a licensed health care professional determined the inspection and copying was reasonably likely to endanger the life or physical safety of the individual or another person; (2) the information was about another person (other than a health care provider) and a licensed health care professional determined the inspection and copying was reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to that other person; (3) the information was obtained under a promise of confidentiality from someone other than a health care provider and the inspection and copying was likely to reveal the source of the information; (4) the information was obtained by a covered provider in the course of a clinical trial, the individual agreed to the denial of access in consenting to participate in the trial, and the trial was in progress; and (5) the information was compiled in reasonable anticipation of, or for use in, a legal Start Printed Page 82555proceeding.

Despite the phasing out of the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rule that only licensed health care professionals or «credentialed medical assistants» are permitted to enter orders into the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system for meaningful use calculation purposes under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program remains in effect until at least December 31,Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rule that only licensed health care professionals or «credentialed medical assistants» are permitted to enter orders into the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system for meaningful use calculation purposes under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program remains in effect until at least December 31,health care professionals or «credentialed medical assistants» are permitted to enter orders into the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system for meaningful use calculation purposes under the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program remains in effect until at least December 31, 2021.

Welcome to Community Health Systems, Inc. (CHSI) where our mission is to improve the health and well being of the indigent population in medically under - served communities by providing a dignified setting to allow those who could not otherwise afford such services, access to low or no cost quality health care by skilled and caring Providers and Health Systems, Inc. (CHSI) where our mission is to improve the health and well being of the indigent population in medically under - served communities by providing a dignified setting to allow those who could not otherwise afford such services, access to low or no cost quality health care by skilled and caring Providers and health and well being of the indigent population in medically under - served communities by providing a dignified setting to allow those who could not otherwise afford such services, access to low or no cost quality health care by skilled and caring Providers and health care by skilled and caring Providers and staff.

«At a time when more and families are uninsured and under economic assault, President Bush is fueling the health care crisis by denying women access to quality, affordable care,» said Reina Schiffrin, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America applauds the decision by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to ensure access to affordable birth control, and not further expand the refusal provision to the birth control coverage benefit under the Affordable Care Act.

Over the last several years, Planned Parenthood's mission of providing health care to people across the country has come under attack by politicians bent on ending access to reproductive health care.

The Multiplying Connections Initiative is under the auspices of the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP), a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve access to an quality of health care services for underserved and vulnerable individuals and famHealth Federation of Philadelphia (HFP), a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve access to an quality of health care services for underserved and vulnerable individuals and famhealth care services for underserved and vulnerable individuals and families.

Under the Exceed initiative, funded through the federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge grant, RIDE and partner agencies - the Departments of Health, Human Services, and Children, Youth and Families; the Office of Health and Human Services; and Rhode Island KIDS COUNT - are involved in an on - going initiative to increase access to early - learning programs and to improve program quality in public preschools, child - care centers, and family home - care centers.

A range of therapists with different backgrounds treat a range of couples with complex combinations of stressors and problems, under real world constraints of time (like only a few weeks of treatment, or couples treatment as an adjunct to another kind of treatment) and resources (like insurance or funds to cover therapy costs, or access to qualified mental health care).

The present study therefore presents an unusual opportunity to learn about predictors of children's health care and health status within a lower income sample, under conditions where there is universal access to health services.