Sentences with phrase «of medical operations»

Bruce Herdman, the prison's chief of medical operations, says weight gain is a problem, but it's not the most urgent health problem his team is managing.

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Carretta says learning how to build the infrastructure for operations like the one in Nevada, where recreational weed was legalized last year, and medical dispensaries like one in New York, will help the company take advantage of new markets more quickly moving forward.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Employees, meanwhile, can better design, sell, and service the product once they are more familiar with the operation of a medical clinic.

He's also an investment partner at Green Acre Capital, a cannabis - related private fund; holds director seats at the TSX - V listed food firm Hempco Food & Fibre and the medical marijuana producer Emblem Corp.; and is part of Nesta Brand Co., an operation involving former Tweed Marijuana Inc..

The essential services still allowed for withdrawal, in order of priority, include certain federal funds, payroll, and money for police, fire, medical, education, and disaster recovery operations.

The health care sector consists of drug companies, medical supply companies, and other scientific - based operations that are concerned with improving and healing human life.

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

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.

As the Washington Post reported on Monday, «By the end of their three - week operation in Louisiana and Mississippi, the Mexicans had served 170,000 meals, helped distribute more than 184,000 tons of supplies and conducted more than 500 medical consultations.»

Point Seven Group represents more than 25 years in regulated medical and adult - use cannabis markets, spanning the divisions of cultivation, processing / extraction, dispensary, operations and business strategy.

The healthcare titan has hundreds of subsidiaries and core operations that dominate attractive market segments including consumer goods, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals.

Conde was killed in an operation in which another U.S. service member was wounded and medically evacuated to Bagram Airfield north of Kabul for medical treatment in a military hospital.

Just as it is OK for a doctor to perform an operation or a medical procedure that has a good chance of causing an abortion in a pregnant woman.

Consider, he says, the case of a man who has recovered his sight through a medical operation.

Perhaps nothing is more impressive, when read at length in the context of some definite medical case, than the intimate relation discovered between the psychological and the physical in man himself, and the detailed tracing of the organisation and operations of every organ of the body to the brain as their centre and control tower for stimuli both incoming and outgoing.

Less than three weeks after judge Thomas Wingate ordered Medi - Share to cease operations in the state of Kentucky, the Florida - based medical cost - sharing ministry is urging its 800 Kentucky clients to seek coverage through a competitor.

As you listen to the healed man's gratefully enthusiastic account of the event of his recovery of sight, you will notice how strikingly it differs from the medical report given by the doctors who performed the operation.

Tenley's surgery routinely involves such operations as appendectomies and cholecystectomies (removals of the gall bladder), and she has done amputations, subtotal thryoidectomies and, with a senior surgeon in attendance, a subtotal gastrectomy — the partial removal of the stomach, graduate work by any medical standards.

The medical staff at the Emirates were therefore sweating on the results of some intense treatment given to Walcott last week, to see if it had worked and avoided the need for the player to have another operation and another long spell on the sidelines.

'' [For] anybody who has had four operations on their knee by age 35 and is still having significant problems, the outlook is not good,» says Dr. Ronald Grelsamer, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

King talks wistfully of new medical procedures that would have saved her the knee operations and of new insights into the sport that might have won her more matches.

Such as their Artillery missile batteries, Assault rifles, AK 47 automatic machine guns, Machine guns, Ammunition, Helicopters gun ship for aerial support, Bombs, Grenades, Missiles, Rockets, Missile launchers, Rocket launchers, Grenade launchers, Bomb launchers, Mines, Mine sweepers, Anti-aircraft missile batteries, Tanks, Military hardware, Military communication gadgets, Extra military kit, Medics, Medical personnel, Military ambulances, Fuel supply military vehicles, Military trucks caring food & water supply including spare parts, Money, Armed Forces Personnel Carriers (APC) and a Military command structure to be directing operations on the field of play.

Such as their Artillery missile batteries, Assault rifles, AK 47 automatic machine guns, Machine guns, Ammunition, Helicopters gun ship for aerial support, Bombs, Grenades, Missiles, Rockets, Missile launchers, Rocket launchers, Grenade launchers, Bomb launchers, Mines, Mine sweepers, Anti-aircraft missile batteries, Tanks, Military hardware, Military communication gadgets, Extra military kit, Medics, Medical personnel, Military ambulances, Fuel supply military vehicles, Military trucks caring food & water supply, Money, Armed Forces Personnel Carriers (APC) and a Military command structure to direct operations on the field of play.

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His research and administrative interests have focused on the design and operation of programs that promote high quality, cost effective medical care.

An Air Force medical officer, Captain Ginger Bohl, was sent to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and had to leave her four - month - old son at home.

As late as the 1970s, leading American medical textbooks still advocated routine circumcision as a way to prevent masturbation.5 The antisexual motivations behind an operation that entails cutting off part of the penis are obvious.

The team at Operation Smile consist of medical volunteers who provide free physical exams and reconstructive surgery for children and young adults with cleft lips, palates and other facial deformities.

In many large centers the medical team is supported by clinical directors or chiefs of the NICU who may not have direct care of your child at all times but who work with the entire team of neonatologists as well as the nurse managers to oversee the general operations of the whole unit.

Likewise, there was little debate on the option of subsidizing operations and medicine, which are major causes of rising medical bills.

This is due to the complexities of US healthcare bureaucracy, inability to pay for treatment, as well as a lack of regulation on the prices of medical services, such as operations, medication, and the cost of seeing specialists.

A provider of medical marijuana that has operations in Western New York is launching a home delivery program.

An additional $ 674,000 in salary and contract spending was eliminated Wednesday at the Nassau University Medical Center, bringing the two - day purge of costs deemed unnecessary for hospital operations to more than $ 2.34 million.

Giving an insight into the operational activities of Operation Lafiya Dole, General Nicholas told the team of the impending Operation Last Hold, which he described as an operation driven by civil — military activities geared towards giving back the IDPs their lives and supporting them to return to their communities through provision of agricultural implements for farming and fishing, rebuilding of accommodation structures, provision of medical support and sOperation Lafiya Dole, General Nicholas told the team of the impending Operation Last Hold, which he described as an operation driven by civil — military activities geared towards giving back the IDPs their lives and supporting them to return to their communities through provision of agricultural implements for farming and fishing, rebuilding of accommodation structures, provision of medical support and sOperation Last Hold, which he described as an operation driven by civil — military activities geared towards giving back the IDPs their lives and supporting them to return to their communities through provision of agricultural implements for farming and fishing, rebuilding of accommodation structures, provision of medical support and soperation driven by civil — military activities geared towards giving back the IDPs their lives and supporting them to return to their communities through provision of agricultural implements for farming and fishing, rebuilding of accommodation structures, provision of medical support and seedlings.

The new 3,800 sq. ft. Streck Health Center is just east of Pathfinder Village, off of NYS Route 80, Pathfinder Village will lease the new facility to Bassett Healthcare Network, which will oversee medical operations.

The Nigeria Air Force Special Operation Command, Bauchi, on Wednesday commenced a five - day free medical outreach in Katagum Local Government Area of the state.

Following this agreement, the university established a company, the University of Ghana Medical Center (UGMC) Limited to serve as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that will oversee the operations of the facility.

Despite, a promise by the University of Ghana (UG), to put into operation the first phase of its newly built Medical Centre which was completed in November 2016 and commissioned in January 2017, the facility is yet to be operational, following a huge disagreements over the legitimate manager of the hospital.

The British Medical Association (BMA) welcomed the idea of treating patients more quickly, but queried the government's proposals for implementing the targets, including around the clock operations.

An additional $ 674,000 in salary and contract spending was eliminated yesterday at the Nassau University Medical Center, bringing the two - day purge of costs deemed unnecessary for hospital operations to more than $ 2.34 million.

But the issue's task force has been out of operation since 2009, and the council hasn't held hearings on the likely closing of the Interfaith Medical Center at 1545 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors now intend to move forward with a second trial and will retry Espada on four counts that stem from his tainted operation of Soundview Healthcare Network, a chain of medical clinics in The Bronx, a source told The Post.

GOSHEN — The Orange County Medical Examiner's morgue and forensic operations has two months to move out of Orange Regional Medical Center, where it has been operating.

The helicopters were meant to ensure safety of Ghana Gas installations, provide surveillance services and also to conduct medical evacuation and search and rescue operations in the event of any accident in the oil and Gas sector.

The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Ebonyi State chapter yesterday lamented the increase in operations of fake doctors in the state.

The Nassau County jail's inmate medical provider notified county officials it will pull its operations out of the East Meadow facility in 30 days or less if it doesn't get a payment of about $ 2 million by Friday.

The legislation awaiting the governor's signature would provide the children and siblings of police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians who died as a result of the September 11th World Trade Center attack or rescue operations following the attack to receive additional points on a civil service exam for a position that is located in the same municipality where the applicant's deceased parent or sibling served.

The 82 division of the Nigerian Army has embarked on the provision of extensive and free medical services to about 1, 500 persons as part of «Operation Python Dance» efforts towards endearing the army to the people of the South east and rekindling excellent civil - military relationship.

He also pledged to commit 100 percent of county tax revenues from medical marijuana operations in the county to the war on drugs.