Sentences with phrase «patients at these health centers»

Health Center Escorts Health center escorts are trained to support patients at our health centers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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Boosting patient engagement through technology is seen as a critical task for health care, says Patricia Griffiths, a researcher at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center's Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Visual and Neural Rehabilitation in Atlanta.

The command center pulls in information from more than a dozen data streams in real time, including patient health records, emergency dispatch service updates, lab results, and tabs on how many hospital beds are available at any given time.

To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.

This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.2 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception that directly benefit the young patients treated at UF Health Shands Children's Hospital and Arnold Palmer Medical Center.

This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.3 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception in 1997 that directly benefit the young patients treated at Arnold Palmer Medical Center and UF Health Shands Children's Hospital.

Local health centers that serve low - income and uninsured patients have asked Americares for medicine, supplies, logistical help and other support as they have seen a surge of patients at the same time that their own staff is recovering from the floods.

At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high - quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.

In the Far West, a mental health center has established a panel of fifty qualified community professionals who accept patients for individual and group psychotherapy after screening and evaluation at the mental health center The center pays a small fee to the panel members and retains responsibility for the patient's total treatment program.

Raw Maple Spice Drop Cookies This raw maple spice drop cookies recipe is made by my former patient service specialist at Exodus Health Center — Diane Walker.

Typically, urgent care centers contract with most major health plans and patients» insurance is verified at the time of service.

Because the Physicians at Aspen Women's Center care about the quality of their patient's deliveries and are very concerned about the welfare and health of your unborn child, we will not participate in a «Birth Contract», a Doulah Assisted, or a Bradley Method delivery.

For more than a century, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center has pioneered health care for pediatric patients.

«Lactation is basically a process that is not just reserved to pregnant patients,» said Dr. Sami Jabara, director of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Lubbock.

At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader U.S. Chuck Schumer will urge the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase research, vaccine development and treatment strategies to help stamp out tick - borne diseases like Lyme disease, Albany Medical Center, B Entry, Patient Pavilion, Floor E, corner of Myrtle Avenue and New Scotland Avenue, Albany.

Prosecutors hope Taub, one of their star witnesses, will prove to the jury that Silver pushed him to refer mesothelioma patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the firm where Silver was of counsel and from where he collected portions of settlements while allegedly funneling state health care funds to Taub's research center at Columbia University.

The de Blasio administration will announce later Wednesday afternoon an agreement with the renowned cancer center that allows patients who are losing their Health Republic coverage at the end of this month to continue to receive coverage for care for as long as they require treatment if they enroll in MetroPlus, the insurance offered by New York City Health + Hospitals (formerly known as the city Health and Hospitals Corporation).

At 1 p.m., Rep. Kathleen Rice will hold a press availability after meeting with health care workers and patients to discuss the care they receive and how it would be affected by Medicaid cuts in the Republican health care bill, TownHouse Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 755 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale.

Catholic Health will provide adult primary care and internal medicine services, OB / GYN and prenatal care services and physical therapy at the Mall along with operating an NCQA Level 3 Patient - Centered Medical Home and on - site laboratory service center.

(Bronx, NY)-- Today, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D - Queens, the Bronx) was honored by staff and patients at Urban Health Plan for his years of leadership and advocacy on behalf of community health centers in New York and across AmHealth Plan for his years of leadership and advocacy on behalf of community health centers in New York and across Amhealth centers in New York and across America.

«Tell everyone I'm alive and in good health,» said Albert Vaughan, 45, when reached by telephone Tuesday at the Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, where he has been a patient.

«Several major advances in recent years have been good news for multiple myeloma patients, but those new drugs only target terminally differentiated cancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The Czech - born psychiatrist conducted dozens of government - sanctioned LSD experiments in the»50s,»60s, and early»70s on heroin addicts, alcoholics, and terminal cancer patients in his native Prague and later at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, a mental health facility in Catonsville, Maryland, where he was chief of psychiatric research.

«It is estimated there are 1 million new cases of sepsis in hospitalized patients per year in the United States,» said Dr. John Griswold, professor and chair emeritus in the Department of Surgery at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

New research led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) may now help clinicians assess an individual patient's risk of developing post-operative delirium, enabling preventive measures to safeguard their health.

«Previous studies had used an older method to analyze patients» inflammatory markers,» explained co-senior author George Kuchel, MD, a geriatrician at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

In it, critical care specialist Charles Natanson of the Clinical Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, argued that blood substitutes, no matter how they're designed, raise the risk of death by almost 30 % and nearly triple the rate of heart attacks in the people who receive them in clinical trials, mainly surgery and trauma patients.

A 2011 outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC), which is resistant to most known antibiotics, at the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center killed 11 patients and infected many others.

«We are looking to optimize the combinations of targeted therapies and the scheduling of those therapies so we can improve tumor shrinkage and minimize potential toxicities for a patient,» said Andrew Aplin, PhD, Associate Director for Basic Research and the Program Leader for Cancer Cell Biology and Signaling (CCBS) in the NCI - designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health.

In 1984 the late Ian Falloon, professor of psychiatry at the Auckland Medical Center in New Zealand, created a model mental health service in Buckingham and Winslow, two small towns northwest of London, to identify and treat high - risk patients in the community.

«The PSA test is based on the fact that men with higher levels of the PSA protein are more likely to have prostate cancer,» said William Catalona, MD, principal investigator on the Prostate Health Index clinical study and urologist at Northwestern Medicine and director of the Clinical Prostate Cancer Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, where they began using the phi test on patients in February.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

In a related editorial, Tiffany Cossey, M.D., and Nicole R. Gonzales, M.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, write: «Although sICH may be an uncommon occurrence, the known risk weighs heavily on the decision of clinicians to administer tPA [intravenous tissue plasminogen activator], as well as on the decisions of patients and families regarding treatment.

A new study led by researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) found that the proportion of discharges among minority patients receiving inpatient care at minority - serving hospitals in Massachusetts increased after the implementation of health insurance reform measures which expanded access to care in non-safety net hospitals.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Center.

«CER is focused on actual choices that patients are having to face,» says Kathryn McDonald, executive director of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University.

«We need the frontline clinicians to be astute and notice if they are seeing patients with an unusual infection, or a number of similar infections from a specific location such as a child care center, nursing home or eating facility and then work closely with the state and local health authorities,» said Larry Pickering, MD, a co-author of the guidelines and adjunct professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

«The compelling results seen in this global study provide unequivocal evidence supporting the clinical utility of Oncotype DX to risk - stratify patients with early stage breast cancer, and indicate that the findings are generalizable to everyday clinical practice,» said lead author Joseph A. Sparano, MD, vice-chairman of medical oncology at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, and professor of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

A decision to overhaul the leadership of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center after an outside review group found serious patient safety problems has sparked an uproar at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

► «A decision to overhaul the leadership of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center after an outside review group found serious patient safety problems has sparked an uproar at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland,» Jocelyn Kaiser wrote last Friday.

«Oncologists here at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health and elsewhere can often personalize cancer therapy based on an individual patient's unique cancer mutations,» said senior author Trey Ideker, PhD, professor of genetics at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Professor Jeremy Dawson, Professor of Health Management at the University of Sheffield, said: «Schwartz Center Rounds offer a valuable support system to healthcare staff, that can help to improve wellbeing, and that enable a focus on compassion and empathy towards colleagues and patients that is difficult to achieve in their otherwise hectic working lives.»

If so, says Grover Bagby, a hematologist who directs the Oregon Cancer Center at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, further work to decipher the protein's exact function could shed light on how to treat a much larger population of patients with leukemia, certain other forms of cancer, and aplastic anemia.

More patients, all taking part in the study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and facilitated by the Prechter Bipolar Research Fund at the U-M Depression Center, have already started to use the app on study - provided smartphones.

«The prevalence of comorbidities is higher in older lung cancer patients than patients who are younger,» said K.M. Monirul Islam, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health.

«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.

Thirty patients with a condition called mitral valve regurgitation (MR) were treated with the device at six clinical centers in Europe, sponsored by the manufacturer of the device, Harpoon Medical, Inc., Baltimore, Md., to determine whether the device meets essential European health and safety requirements.

The results of this trial study should inform surgical decision making when caring for these complex patients,» said Annetine C. Gelijns, Ph.D., the Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Evidence and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the principal investigator for the Data Coordinating Center based at Mount Sinai.

How an oncologist bases his or her treatment decision can be based on experience, comfort level prescribing and the patient's health,» said senior author Paul Fanta, MD, assistant clinical professor of medicine and oncologist at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.