Sentences with phrase «of health care process»

Nurse case managers play a vital role in proper functioning of health care process.

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And that in itself is likely a show vote since it has little chance of passing in the House; rather, it may provide an avenue for keeping the legislative process going, buying time to iron out a new Senate - House deal on health care.

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.

Centene, a health care and claims processing firm, opened a truly beautiful state - of - the - art call center in the city.

For example, Lee Coulter, VP of business processes at Ascension Healthcare in Indianapolis, reports that Ascension reduced outsourcing over 50 percent in the past few years for its 84 hospitals and 400 health care centers.

Still, in 2016, venture investors poured $ 12.2 billion into health care, backing companies that promise to change everything from cancer care to the process of finding a new doctor.

In Canada — an environment with radically different processes and supports for dependent patients — the supply of such tools is nowhere close to meeting the surging demand, signalling that caregiver - focused technology may be the greatest untapped niche in health - care tech north of the border.

And paying for time off isn't the only part of the process of course — there's also the impact of the policy on other benefits like health care as children are added.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

He is currently Chairman of the Board of Pivot 88 a Hong Kong based SAAS company, Keatext an AI - driven text analytics Montreal - based SAAS company and Carré Technologies specializing in signal processing and machine learning algorithms for wearable devices in health care environments.

HALIFAX (CP)-- A council of Nova Scotia health - care unions is recommending its members ratify a proposed process to resolve a protracted contract dispute with the province's health authority and the IWK Health Chealth - care unions is recommending its members ratify a proposed process to resolve a protracted contract dispute with the province's health authority and the IWK Health Chealth authority and the IWK Health CHealth Centre.

Perot Systems, an IT services company founded by the billionaire and onetime U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot, handles a lot of technology needs for government agencies and health care providers, including helping to process medical claims.

The Christian response to health care reform is to show deference, self - control, and a continued commitment to serving the poor and the sick, regardless of whether the government helps or hurts the process.

So, something traumatic happens to you and instead of grieving that and going through that process, you stuff all those feelings in, you hide behind the mask of emotional strength, you keep taking care of everybody else, you keep working, and then you start engaging in self - medicating behaviors: you start binge - eating, you put a lot of focus on your physical appearance, you do a lot of makeup, hair, clothing, compulsive shopping, you start picking up these other health problems associated with these behaviors.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission also alleges the Mildura - based family business Country Care Group engaged in criminal cartel conduct when participating in NSW Health tenders by getting competitors to either bid lower or drop out of the tender process all together.

As part of the Rainforest Alliance certification process, SAN auditors collect information about salaries, including non-monetary benefits such as housing and medical care, and help to ensure that work hours are regulated, overtime is voluntary and compensated, and workers receive health and safety training.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

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.

As an informatics nurse, Cathy focuses her research on standardizing data and the interoperability of maternal and infant health records across the care continuum and, through interoperability, assessing the ability to demonstrate the value of nursing and midwifery care to normal birth processes.

We offer our expertise, evidence - based health information, community standards of care, and medical, holistic, and traditional alternatives to support your decision making process.

Although some families continue breastfeeding or offering breast milk in a bottle or sippy cup well into their children's toddler years, most pediatricians and other health care professionals recommend getting started on the weaning process around one year of age.

With my hands clenched atop my swollen belly, feeling my daughter stretch within, I stared out of the window for the entire drive, angry at the government of Canada for not processing my residency and hence my free health care faster, angry at my husband for saying we should go to this information session, and most especially angry at the thought of having to deal with the pain of childbirth.

In truth it all went very smoothly, but during that pregnancy I became fascinated by the birth process and the current state of women's health care.

She has a strong feeling that there is spiritual purpose to the birth process that will be minimized by health care professionals who do not acknowledge or understand those dimensions of health, and how important they are to some women, and even more so during birth.

Description: Based on interviews with over 100 mothers and many of their health care professionals, this dissertation applies a model derived from symbolic anthropology to the pregnancy / childbirth process which interprets this process as a year - long initiatory rite of passage.

If policy makers and health care providers want to optimize maternity care, they must consider not only the outcomes of birth, but also the entire process of pregnancy and childbirth.

HMBANA defines a milk bank as» a service established for the purpose of recruiting and collecting milk from donors, and processing, screening, storing, and distributing donated milk to meet the specific needs of individuals for whom human milk is prescribed by health care providers who are licensed to prescribe.»

Moreover, robust evidence on the cost effectiveness of birth in alternative settings is a priority, as was highlighted by the recent National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidance on intrapartum care.11 The Birthplace in England research programme was designed to fill gaps in research evidence about the processes and outcomes associated with different settings for birth in the NHS in England.

Current differences in models of care, health professional education, regulatory standards, and compensation for prenatal visits likely affect the time available for these discussions and the emphasis placed on the shared decision making process.

During the surrogacy process, your loved ones will likely have a team of support that could include a surrogate agency, health care providers, or support groups.

Midwives have the knowledge, training and experience to support physiologic birth and have developed care models and practices around providing information, reducing stress, building confidence, allowing nature to take its time, and promoting healthy biologic processes and innate hormonal systems that this report shows are essential elements in the health and well - being of mothers and babies and families.

Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care provides compelling evidence that unnecessary medical interventions disturb these hormonal processes, reducing the benefits of physiologic pathways and creating new health challenges for mothers and newborns.

Just as sensible funeral planning asserts a feeling of being prepared for mortality, so sensible health care prepares one for the process of aging.

Although such a calculator may provide more specific information about the chance of VBAC, which can be used by health care providers and their patients to further the process of shared decision making, no prediction model for VBAC has been shown to result in improved patient outcomes.

The bill Requires the State Departments of Public Health and Health Care Services to coordinate, through a stakeholder engagement process, to do the following: — Improve the process for WIC eligibility and application enrollment via Medi - Cal and Covered California enrollment.

Kids Plus is home to Adoption Health Services of Western Pennsylvania, where Dr. Sarah Springer has worked for more than 20 years to provide education, support, and both physical and mental health care for families in all stages of the adoption prHealth Services of Western Pennsylvania, where Dr. Sarah Springer has worked for more than 20 years to provide education, support, and both physical and mental health care for families in all stages of the adoption prhealth care for families in all stages of the adoption process.

Other Affiliated Organizations American Board of Pediatric Dentistry The American Board of Pediatric Dentistry is the organization which verifies to the public and health professions that a pediatric dentist has successfully completed both an advanced educational program accredited by the ADA Commission on Dental Accreditation and a voluntary examination process designed to validate the knowledge, application and performance requisite to the delivery of proficient care in pediatric dentistry

It is my submission that «when millions of people have been cheated for too long, restitution becomes a costly process; inferior education, poor housing, unemployment, poor health care facilities» These are but the real propellers of hate.

Senate Republicans are touting on Thursday a package of measures designed to ease burdnes on business, ranging from reforms to the state's regulatory process to providing relief for small businesses facing high health - care costs.

Olakulehin, who told Good Health Weekly, that he had conviction that a portable, battery operated device that automates the process of providing ventilator support for respiratory failure patients anywhere and not just in the Intensive Care Unit, ICU would be a life saver.

Spitzer also took issue with Cuomo's strategy of putting health care players with a vested interest onto the redesign team that hashed out a Medicaid reform plan — and protected themselves in the process.

The perfect storm of years of unprotected budgets, planning processes which have encouraged silo working in health and social care and an often invisible client group, has resulted in zero focus on a clear vision for what we need older people's services to look like.

«The closing of LICH and the process through which the sale happened — a sale where a health facility becomes a real estate development — is classic corruption,» she told a gathering of community members and health care workers.

The very first page of that comprehensive report said it was supposed to begin the process of reshaping the health care delivery system in Brooklyn.

One of the largest provider networks in the state will no longer process claims from Health Republic Insurance customers, a decision that could impede coverage for thousands of New Yorkers during the next three weeks and force physicians, rehab centers, hospitals and health systems to provide care for which they are unlikely to be fully reimbHealth Republic Insurance customers, a decision that could impede coverage for thousands of New Yorkers during the next three weeks and force physicians, rehab centers, hospitals and health systems to provide care for which they are unlikely to be fully reimbhealth systems to provide care for which they are unlikely to be fully reimbursed.

«For the last 18 months, the College has actively engaged with the policy development process, from the publication in July 2010 of the Health and Social Care White Paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, through to the various parliamentary stages of the bill, including the Future Forum's «Listening Exercise» last April and May.

(CNN)- As President Obama gets set to address a joint - session of Congress on the issue of health care reform Wednesday night, former President Clinton says it's time to forget about the Republican Party's role in the process entirely.

The National Health Act, 2014 for the Basic Health Care Provision Fund, he said, was in the process of being implemented.

The changes to the Certificate of Need process will make it a more effective and efficient health care planning process, helping to improve the distribution of health care resources, enhance health care quality and control health care spending.