Sentences with phrase «quality care systems»

Monitored post-op vitals, set up PCA, fluids, reviewed post-op orders and orient patients to unit.Developed and maintained quality care systems and standards, including but not limited to, creating and improving medical protocols / guidelines.

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The 71 - year - old nonprofit — it's a health plan, a hospital system, and a physicians» group all in one — provides high - quality and relatively affordable care to some 10 million members in eight states.

And we certainly wear it in terms of accessibility, quality and safety of our health care system.

Today, patient experience is measured by a survey called the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (H.C.A.H.P.S.) The embattled survey asks multiple choice questions and aims to establish the quality of the care provided.

While critics emphasize the ACA's shortcomings, cost and quality issues have long plagued the U.S. health care system.

Explains why the US health care system is run by insurance companies, plagued by high costs, and increasingly has problems with medical care quality

EXCITE will lower health care costs and increase patient benefits by improving the quality and relevance of these technologies, streamlining their health system adoption and expediting their market penetration.

The Paul Martin government proposed to create thousands of new day - care spaces and had also negotiated deals with most provinces and territories to turn a patch - work of often poor - quality services into a system of early learning and child care with national standards.

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.

How Canada ensures it provides a universal, affordable, and high quality health care system that accommodates technological innovation and changes in delivery over the next few decades is a particularly important challenge.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Collaborate with the business community and mental health care NGOs to ensure that the public health - care system provides timely, quality, and accessible mental health care and addiction services.

Moderator: Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS, System Patient Safety Officer and Director, Center for Advancing Patient Safety, Stanford Health Care, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Dr. Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and internationally - recognized expert in Patient Safety, Quality, and Innovation.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.

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.

Europeans and Americans head to India for high - quality and inexpensive medical care while the Indian poor struggle with the most privatized health system in the world.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

The single payer system has proven to result in less access to care, less quality of care, waiting lists, delayed treatments (even emergent treatments), and rationing of care.

Since the launch of Childbirth Connection's Transforming Maternity Care initiative in 2007, program work has focused on improving maternity care quality and value by strengthening the effectiveness of the maternity care sysCare initiative in 2007, program work has focused on improving maternity care quality and value by strengthening the effectiveness of the maternity care syscare quality and value by strengthening the effectiveness of the maternity care syscare system.

The resulting consensus document, 2020 Vision for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System serves as a focal point to inspire improvement strategies, and formed the basis for the Blueprint For Action: Steps Toward A High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System:

Kate has been instrumental in promoting a safety, quality agenda in health care for women and infants, and developing collaborative models between midwives and obstetricians to engender integration of home birth into the maternity care system.

In 2008, Childbirth Connection convened a Vision Team of innovators in maternity care delivery and health systems design to define the fundamental values, principles, and goals for a high - quality, high - value maternity care system.

Be recognized by employers and peers as a competent professional in a system that reflects commitment to best practice and quality care for all infants, toddlers, and families

We use all natural cleaning products in our home not only because we care about the environment, indoor air quality, and have a greywater system, but in order that our kids can safely help us clean.

Since 2000, she has been Director of Programs at Childbirth Connection, working with colleagues and partners to advance Childbirth Connection's mission of improving the quality and value of maternity care through consumer engagement and health system transformation (transform.childbirthconnection.org, http://www.childbirthconnection.org).

Carol is a member of the Expecting More team that is creating state - of - the - science maternity care decision aids; co-author of 2010 direction - setting companion reports: «2020 Vision for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System» and «Blueprint for Action»; lead author of the Milbank Report Evidence - based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding author of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be published in midwifery and nursing journals; author of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor of special issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overcare decision aids; co-author of 2010 direction - setting companion reports: «2020 Vision for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System» and «Blueprint for Action»; lead author of the Milbank Report Evidence - based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding author of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be published in midwifery and nursing journals; author of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor of special issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overCare System» and «Blueprint for Action»; lead author of the Milbank Report Evidence - based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding author of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be published in midwifery and nursing journals; author of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor of special issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overCare: What It Is and What It Can Achieve; a co-investigator of three path - breaking national Listening to Mothers surveys; founding author of a quarterly evidence column (2003 - 07) that continues to be published in midwifery and nursing journals; author of an annual column in Birth (2006 --RRB-; and guest editor of special issues on Transforming Maternity Care, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overCare, The Nature and Management of Labor Pain, and cesarean section overuse.

With women and infants at the center of this framework and midwifery as a key component to its success, the findings of this series support a shift to a whole - system approach that provides quality care for all.

Georgia launched a voluntary quality rating and improvement system in January 2012 with the expectation that 700 child care programs would begin participating in the first year.

Home visiting has been demonstrated to be an effective method of supporting families, particularly as part of a comprehensive and coordinated system of high - quality, affordable early care and education, health and mental health, and family support services for families of children from the prenatal through the pre-kindergarten stages.

The quality - based child care rating system, Texas Rising Star, supports breastfeeding in its guidelines too.

Since then, research, professional guidelines, state — wide health care directives, hospital systems, health care quality improvement initiatives, and federal and state - level maternity care legislation have identified many aspects of the MFCI and the Ten Steps of the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative as key factors to improving maternal - infant health outcomes.

Find the expertise your child needs from top pediatric neurologists at Floating Hospital in Boston, offering quality care for diseases of the nervous system.

These data would be linked to other data systems, used to inform quality improvement, and would thus enhance the evidence basis for care.

We offer hope to educators by providing critical professional development and work toward the creation of a system of quality early care and education for our youngest citizens.

In the absence of any external rating system, experts recommend that parents look for signs that their pediatrician is giving quality care, including:

This strategy requires responsive health systems that are equipped with lifesaving commodities and staffed with health workers who can deliver high - quality and timely skilled care, including emergency obstetric care and interventions for small and ill newborn babies.

We were AMAZED to learn that an uninterrupted 60 minutes of Kangaroo Care would accelerate baby's brain development, reduce stress and crying, regulate baby's body temperature, heart rate and breathing; increase their quality of sleep; enhance their immune system; stimulate digestion and weight gain; and increase breastfeeding behavior.

«There are financial pressures throughout the system, let's be absolutely clear about that, but there are lots of places who are dealing with those financial pressures without compromising the quality of care.»

«I have consistently fought against cuts to our health care system that would diminish the quality of care and burden the elderly, the disabled and working families of New York State because I know how important an accessible and adequately funded healthcare system is.»

Established pursuant to Executive Order No. 5, the Medicaid Redesign Team's 27 members will bring vast experience as health care providers, consumers and industry experts to address the challenge of refocusing our health care system to provide quality health care at lower costs.

Our Vision An NHS where patients can receive the highest quality care equivalent to that of other healthcare systems where the prevention of healthcare infections is considered paramount in patient care.

«There can be no place for poor quality care in care services, either in the home care system or in residential homes,» care services minister Paul Burstow commented.

«The federal government is still trying to decimate our health care system by targeting the quality of care low income Americans are able to receive,» Governor Cuomo said.

As we continue our efforts to transform OPWDD's system away from institutional care and towards community based living and supports, it is evident that more and more individuals are enjoying a greater quality of life.

«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all New Yorkers, ensure voting rights, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump administration.»

QUALITYstarsNY, as New York's early childhood quality rating and improvement system, is a vital and necessary resource for child care providers to deliver the high quality care that has the greatest impacts on young children.

At a time of reorganisation and change across the four nations, this book provides generic guidance to enable high quality care in whatever system is provided.

At what point in these journals does it says «Thanks to their nationalised system, Britons enjoy a much greater quality of care than the US» or equivalent?

Even those systems which offer protections to disadvantaged groups very rarely offer them the same quality of care as the well - off.