Sentences with phrase «public hospital patients»

Hospital in the Home (HITH) is an acute care service provided to public hospital patients in their own home (or another suitable environment outside hospital).

The ABC said the report suggested public hospital patients could benefit from doctors and health services publicly reporting their performance, while The Sydney Morning Herald's headline read: «Hospitals, housing and dental services ripe for privatisation, says Productivity Commission report».

Not exact matches

Half - year profit in Nib's health insurance business has dropped 9.2 per cent to $ 66.3 million due to the growth in private patients getting medical care in public hospitals.

«We've not had access to the drug for a few months,» said Dr. Armstrong, who also works at Grady Memorial Hospital, a huge public treatment center in Atlanta that serves many low - income patients.

Half - year profit in Nib's local health insurance business has dropped 9.2 per cent to $ 66.3 million due to the growth in private patients getting medical care in public hospitals.

For psychiatrists who are competent (or who can convince potential patients of their competence), private practice has been a more lucrative alternative to hospital or center work ever since the public accepted psychiatrists as experts on the problems of living rather than merely on psychoses.

Should Catholic hospitals that receive public funding be legally required to sterilize patients who request it?

Also, his last name is perfect for a cornerback: call his area of the field the Lockdown Ward (i.e. the area of the hospital that's not open to the public because the patients are insane or prone to wandering).

• You have the right to access a copy of your medical records, including your birth notes, if you are a patient in the public system (attending a publicly funded hospital and / or a medical card holder for GP services).

Public hospitals in New York City are marketing breastfeeding directly to their patients, a third of whom are African American.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevention.

This is evident as according to Dr. Toto, up to 90 % of maternal patients who have given birth in Dr Soetomo's Public Area Hospital do not know their blood type.

Westown Physician Center (WPC), a hospital - affiliated urban clinic, USA, where most patients received public insurance or charity care

The first and most severely affected would be public and safety net hospitals both of which serve uninsured and under - insured patients.

Lawmakers need to take action before Oct. 1 to protect the funding stream, which reimburses public and safety net hospitals that treat uninsured and underinsured patients.

The Public Accounts Committee Reports in 2000, 2005 and the most recent, «Reducing Healthcare Associated Infection in Hospitals in England, Fifty - second Report of Session 2008 - 09», and the influential «Dr. Fosters Hospital Guide - Focus on Patient Safety» in 2009, outlined serious concerns about quality of patient care and the need to combat infPatient Safety» in 2009, outlined serious concerns about quality of patient care and the need to combat infpatient care and the need to combat infection.

«The public, experts across the political spectrum, and groups representing patients, hospitals, physicians, seniors, people with disabilities and others have forcefully and repeatedly rejected this misguided approach,» said Deutsch.

«Every day, they stand up and fight for New York City residents, they fight to keep our public hospitals open and serving our most vulnerable patients and on behalf of the thousands of nurses in NYC and the thousands that serve within our public hospital system, we applaud and enthusiastically support these candidates who stand with our patients and communities.»

Mayor de Blasio had a message for Gov. Cuomo at a Monday press conference: «Give our public hospitals the resources they had coming to them so we can serve the patients of New York City, and don't turn it into a political football.»

A new report shows that New York City patients are being cared for more and more by public hospitals, as some private hospitals face financial pressures.

-- It takes the form of an installation representing a bleak room in a hospital, with the social and stark installation based on the power of surveillance (the monitor reminds the viewer of CCTV cameras in public spaces) and indoctrination (the patient cured by the image of the leader).

New York City's public hospital system is offering to cover Memorial Sloan - Kettering patients who live in the city and are set to lose their health insurance because of the collapse of the nation's largest co-op, Health Republic.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

These cuts will decimate New York's hospitals and fall hardest on its public and safety net hospitals that are already strained and serve the neediest patient populations.

In the interim, the State is working with public hospitals to manage cash flow and protect patient care.

At the hour - long presentation of his $ 88.67 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2019 at City Hall on Thursday afternoon, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the $ 700 million figure includes a loss of $ 400 million a year to NYC Health + Hospitals — the city's public hospital system — if Congress does not reinstate Disproportionate Share Hospital funding payments, which support low - income and uninsured phospital system — if Congress does not reinstate Disproportionate Share Hospital funding payments, which support low - income and uninsured pHospital funding payments, which support low - income and uninsured patients.

Hospitals in New York also have gone into overdrive against the Republican measure, saying it «would threaten health coverage for millions of New Yorkers, create a fiscal crisis for the state, and burden hospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in tHospitals in New York also have gone into overdrive against the Republican measure, saying it «would threaten health coverage for millions of New Yorkers, create a fiscal crisis for the state, and burden hospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in thospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in thospitals in the state.

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That is of course true inasmuch as New Labour converted NHS trusts into independent businesses (foundation trusts), introduced ISTCs (private treatment centres paid by public funds irrespective of the number of patients treated), gave NHS work to private hospitals and clinics and encouraged NHS patients to choose them, and developed HMO - style commissioning as in the US.

«The corner has been turned,» Mr. de Blasio said today at Lincoln Hospital, a public hospital that treated many patients with the illness and where a cooling tower had tested positive for the legionella bHospital, a public hospital that treated many patients with the illness and where a cooling tower had tested positive for the legionella bhospital that treated many patients with the illness and where a cooling tower had tested positive for the legionella bacteria.

The rate at which cardiac arrest patients survived until their discharge from the hospital rose from 10.8 to 16.8 percent for public cardiac arrests and from 5.7 to 8.1 percent for cardiac arrests in the home.

«Hospitals are going to be looking for ways to improve quality of care for Medicare patients in order to lower readmission rates and prevent fines,» said study co-author, Tomas Philipson, Ph.D., who is the Daniel Levin Chair of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

The project included public training programs in defibrillators and compression - only CPR at schools, hospitals and major events such as the N.C. State Fair, plus additional instruction for EMS and other emergency workers on optimal care for patients in cardiac arrest.

«The physicians come from a very wealthy environment, most working in public hospitals as clinicians who are one - on - one with a patient.

Sitting on the examining table at Cook County Hospital, Chicago's public hospital, this patient was ebullient, chatting along in Spanish with an Indian accent that I barely undHospital, Chicago's public hospital, this patient was ebullient, chatting along in Spanish with an Indian accent that I barely undhospital, this patient was ebullient, chatting along in Spanish with an Indian accent that I barely understood.

Those patients often face the stark choice of either paying out of pocket for an expensive in - person consultation or waiting for months to be seen by the few specialists working at public hospitals, which receive government funding to help pay for patient care, Komarneni says.

The facility will care for confirmed cases from any of the 11 public hospitals in the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) and any suspected cases among patients who fly into John F. Kennedy or LaGuardia hospitals in the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) and any suspected cases among patients who fly into John F. Kennedy or LaGuardia Hospitals Corporation (HHC) and any suspected cases among patients who fly into John F. Kennedy or LaGuardia airports.

Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.

Here, a patient with mental illness is under restraint at Habeb Public Mental Hospital in Mogadishu.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

For example, a separate study by scientists at the CDC and Haiti's National Public Health Laboratory analyzed patients treated for diarrheal disease at four hospitals in Haiti between April 2012 and March 2013.

Experts from the University of Edinburgh worked with Dr Masaharu Tsubokura from the University of Tokyo to track 400 diabetic patients who were treated by a public hospital in Minamisoma City, 23 km away from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

To estimate the cost of each dengue case, the researchers analyzed the medical records of 1,541 dengue patients who had been treated in 10 public and private medical college hospitals across India from 2006 through 2011.

Public health researchers at Harvard found that elderly patients were less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days if treated by female doctors rather than male.

Patients who had major surgery at high - quality hospitals in the U.S. cost Medicare less than those who had surgery at low - quality hospitals according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Agarwal says «fulfilling the mission» broadly would mean information from Zika diagnoses, for example, is flowing to the right public health official whether it's from patient - hospital encounters stored in a state health information exchange or a primary care setting when a patient presents for treatment or even when such cases are documented at a public health care service location.

A concern is that not adjusting readmissions data for poverty or other socioeconomic factors could mislead the public into thinking that hospitals with a large share of disadvantaged patients provide lower - quality care than hospitals with more affluent patients.

The first and only hospital safety rating to be peer - reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, the Hospital Safety Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospithospital safety rating to be peer - reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, the Hospital Safety Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospitHospital Safety Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospitalhospital stay.

LSUHSC faculty take care of patients in public and private hospitals and clinics throughout the region.

A: While some maintain their own practice, Registered Dieticians often work in conventional medical settings, such as hospitals and public health centers with doctors to help patients with series health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, or cancer.