Sentences with phrase «of quality medical care»

The unhappy title for the world leader in these stakes goes to Sierra Leone with an under five mortality rate in 2000 of 316 per 1,000 live births; and an infant mortality rate of 181 per 1,000 live births.101 It is not difficult to see how poverty of material conditions, poor sanitation and gross malnutrition, added to lack of quality medical care, can be responsible for such tragically foreshortened lives - a life expectancy at birth of 34 years.

Bethphage Hospital has been in operation for more than half of a decade because of quality medical care.

«Based on recommendations from organizations, literature and research, it is becoming clear that identifying mental health needs is part of quality medical care,» said Alan L. Nager, MD, MHA, director of Emergency and Transport Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and first author on the study.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The medical loss ratio provision of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, requires most insurance companies that cover individuals and small businesses to spend at least 80 percent of their premium income on health care claims and quality improvemCare Act, or Obamacare, requires most insurance companies that cover individuals and small businesses to spend at least 80 percent of their premium income on health care claims and quality improvemcare claims and quality improvement.

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.»

Its tailored, world - class services that reduce overall pharmacy costs, reduce avoidable drug impacted medical costs, and optimize specialty drug spend while improving patient quality of life are for all plan sponsors — health plans, accountable care organizations (ACOs), exchanges, state Medicaid programs, and employer groups.

With the hectic schedule involved in providing quality patient care while managing staff at the same time, partnering with Infinit Healthcare for outsourced medical billing can help you manage forthcoming alterations to the system and ensure a more accurate billing of services.

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively - prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug — impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively — prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug - impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

I would need constant medical care and my quality of life would be severely diminished.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

Only a public authority can guarantee the universal access to a medical care of quality, the development of knowledge and the certainty of a job as well as social protection for all.

Mercy Medical Group's healthcare mission is powered by the belief that by delivering an unmatched standard of quality and personal care, we enable the practice of medicine to fulfill the promise of medicine.

When questioned about the state of medical facilities at Arsenal, the manager was adamant in his opinion that the staff were top quality and the players received the best care possible.

Today, Julie Tishler, MD, director of Quality in the Division of Internal Medicine and Adult Primary Care at Tufts Medical Center, shares about what tests you should be getting and when they should start.

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

The report recommended increased access to medical care and improvements in the quality of that care, and yet the focus of the economic and personnel resources of the city in response to the report have been blame - shifting, fear - mongering, and slight - of - hand.

«Until a woman's cervix is dilated to 3 or 4 centimeters, she usually doesn't need to be in the hospital setting,» says Elliott Main, M.D., medical director of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.

Every day, America's nurses play an integral part in providing quality, evidence - based maternity care; care that is respectful of the mother - baby dyad, which results in excellent medical outcomes and produces the highest levels of patient satisfaction.

My appointments were quicker and full of big words, I guess that's what I get for going with «medwives»: good quality, efficient medical care.

Your gift is instrumental in helping us provide the high quality, compassionate medical care that our patients have come to expect, while allowing us to react quickly to the changing needs of healthcare.

Having a medical home means having consistent access to health care that is comprehensive, well - coordinated, and of high quality, and that provides an ongoing relationship with personal providers who treat the whole child.

For instance, addressing concerns about infant comfort, choking, and aspiration while the infant is sleeping prone is helpful.348, 349 Similar interventions for improving behavior of medical and nursing staff and child care providers have shown that these professionals have similar concerns about the supine sleep position.350, — , 353 Primary care providers should be encouraged to develop quality improvement initiatives to improve adherence with safe sleep recommendations among their patients.

Ingram commented on the mission of PATS in the Commonwealth «PATS believes all student athletes within the Commonwealth should have access to quality medical care and we feel we are uniquely positioned to provide this care.»

«As Mayor, my administration has made improving the physical and mental health of all our residents a top priority, but in order to effectively do this, we must ensure that our medical infrastructure is properly staffed with high - quality health care professionals — especially nurses,» de Blasio said.

The donation of the medical supplies and equipment is to complement government's effort at delivering quality health care.

The MMR committee is comprised of clinicians and other key stakeholders from professional organizations and hospitals to review aggregate data and provide recommendations for prevention and improvements in medical care and to identify focus areas for education and quality improvement.

In response, David Lombino, a spokesperson for the Economic Development Corp, said, «Redevelopment of the former Psychiatric Building is necessary to generate revenue for Bellevue Hospital so it can continue providing high - quality medical care for the city residents.

Dr Linda Patterson, RCP Clinical Vice-President, said: «In the changing landscape of healthcare reorganisation across the UK, this book will be pivotal in providing commissioners with much of the information they need to commission and plan hospital medical services in 30 medical specialties, with an emphasis on quality of care.»

Activists rallied outside Nassau's jail Friday to call for an investigation into why the county renewed the contract of the facility's medical provider last year after the state had criticized the quality of health care.

PEF calls on the SUNY Board of Trustees to provide the funding necessary to allow Downstate to fulfill its mission to continue to provide top quality education to its students, and the best possible medical care to the more than two million people living in Brooklyn.

Access to quality health care in Brooklyn, training of future medical professionals, the jobs of hospital workers, and the local economy are all in danger.

We are open to fellows with a broad range of interests that include, but are not limited to: medical research issues, food and drug safety, health care quality and costs, coverage of the uninsured, health information technology, and public health.

In an accompanying editorial, Jayant Talwalkar, M.D., associate medical director of the Value Analysis Program in the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, says that the study further illustrates that existing guidelines are highly variable with respect to evidence quality and transparency.

«This research shows how technology can be used to dramatically change the way preventive services are delivered and improve preventative health care,» says senior author Grant M. Greenberg, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., assistant professor and associate chair for information management and quality at the Department of Family Medicine at the U-M Medical School and member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

She is director of the medical intensive care unit at Keck Hospital of USC, chief quality and patient safety officer at Keck Medical Center of USC and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine medical intensive care unit at Keck Hospital of USC, chief quality and patient safety officer at Keck Medical Center of USC and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine Medical Center of USC and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

London and Schenker argue that while the Internet offers patients valuable data and tools — including hospital quality ratings and professional treatment guidelines — that may help them when facing decisions about where to seek care or whether to undergo a medical procedure, reliable and unbiased information may be hard to identify among the growing number of medical care advertisements online.

Critical care researchers from Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City studied 616 patients who were treated for ARDS to determine what factors played the most significant role in their quality of life six months following discharge from the hospital.

With survival rates improving for ARDS patients, understanding and improving their quality of life outcomes is a clinical and research priority, according to the study's principal investigator Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS, FASE, director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain Medical Center.

The number of U.S. medical students choosing careers in family practice plummeted by more than 50 percent in just the last eight years, but ironically, the more specialists there are in a state per capita, the lower the quality rank of medical care in that state and the higher the cost.

The use of robots to support medical care data management and the delivery of resources at the medical front — thus allowing humans to concentrate on those tasks requiring knowledge, skill, and experience — is expected to contribute to the enhancement of the quality of healthcare services.

«There remains a strong demand among health care leaders to better understand this issue, and how to address it, given the link between disparities, quality, safety, cost and value,» says Betancourt, who is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

People recovering from a stroke should have a well - coordinated medical team to personalize care, optimize quality of life and minimize suffering, according to a scientific statement published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.

Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study is the first meta - analysis of the effect of palliative care as it relates to patients» quality of life, symptom burden and survival.

The framework allowing physicians and imaging developers to tailor the precise radiation dose to achieve a quantitative target of image quality for pediatric patients» care has been hailed as «a big step forward» by editors of the Journal of Medical Imaging.

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The research team used data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a set of large - scale surveys conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to find and collect data on health care services, usage and costs.