Sentences with phrase «rather than in hospitals»

By the 1980s, the present pattern in which abortions are performed in specialized clinics rather than in hospitals or doctors» offices had been established.

In «The Case of the Vanishing Quebec Physicians: How to Improve Access to Care,» author Claude E. Forget, former Quebec Minister of Health and Social Services, calls for primary care reforms that focus on providing more care in communities and clinics, rather than in hospitals.

So it is hard to buck the trend and choose to birth at home rather than in hospital.

ACROSS MY DESK: A frequently asked question concerns the safety of having a baby at home, rather than in a hospital.

There are many reasons why parents opt to birth at home rather than in a hospital.

To help the system deal with the increasing amount of people living longer the report suggests a set of universal standards the state guarantees to provide and a new payment system which will help more people die at home rather than in hospital.

Not exact matches

They can steer or nudge people towards lower cost settings like pharmacies [in the US] that have one - minute clinics rather than high - cost hospitals,» he said.

While this certainly brought him comfort «he had chosen to stay in his room rather than die in the hospital «it also brought comfort, joy, and faith to those of us in the piazza.

Clean drinking water and plumbing helps continue life.in an emergency I'd rather ride in car to hospital than take a donkey to the local witch doctor

To be the only chaplain in a 170 - bed hospital filled with a great number of people who are quadraplegic; to try to help these people rediscover and / or redefine a life value and quality that they often feel has been lost; to grow to care greatly about these people; to do all these things and yet deep, deep inside, to feel that you would rather be dead than be quadraplegic — that's hard to admit.

«But we're hockey players and are most comfortable in our own environment, which is a hockey rink, rather than a hospital or a chapel.»

Stupidly rigid 70th minute subs, rather than as the game warrants; ludicrous playing of players in wrong positions, for which he is notorious; catastrophic ingnorance of the vital need for attack / defence BALANCE, with never two fullbacks up at same time; inability to motivate players to fight, inability to keep them fit, stupid loyalty to long term hospital cases like Diaby and much more besides, too long to list on here.

As I continue on this journey, I find the more I learn about hospitals and standard procedures and doctors» timeframes, etc., the more I think women who elect to birth in a hospital are «brave» rather than the women who do so in their own homes.

I am fond of saying I was able to breastfeed my daughter successfully in spite of the professionals at the hospital where she was born, rather than because of them.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

The only instance I can imagine is malpractice, and at least that gets investigated properly in a hospital setting rather than swept under the rug as we see in so many US midwife cases.

Concerns about hospital policy should be taken up sensibly in terms of joiningpatient advocacy groups, etc, rather than saying people should avoid hospitals altogether.

I don't see it as midwives sitting on their hands, refusing to help save babies; rather, that they do their best, and usually are more effective than a completely untrained person would be in that situation, but that they do not have the tools to save as many babies as the doctors and nurses in the hospital would be able to.

And more importantly, rather than just comparing home vs hospital overall, it compared midwife - led vs OB - led births at home vs hospital (as you should well know, in the Netherlands, low - risk women see a midwife, full stop — you have to be high - risk to see an OB, so hospital births are a combination of low - risk women under midwife care and high - risk women under OB care).

One last thing I wish I had done was to get in touch with the lactation consultants in my hospital to find out what pumping facilities were available while I was still pregnant, rather than waiting until the first day back from maternity leave and scrambling to figure this out while overwhelmed about being back at work.

lol) I wasn't stating you were more likely to aquire a staph infection than die in a homebirth, rather that you were more likely to die from a staph infection than a homebirth, and the staph would be aquired from the hospital, where it is rampant, which is why they don't like people in hospitals longer than they need to be.

Sometimes there are good reasons, but sometimes the reasons are related to insurance rates, or demands on doctors» time (some hospitals require an OB attending a VBAC to be in house the entire time the VBAC is laboring, and few doctors want to do this) rather than the most medically appropriate choice or patient safety.

The vast majority of births in Ireland take place in hospital, either in a dedicated maternity hospital or in the maternity unit of an acute hospital, but some women choose to have their baby at home and others choose a more low - tech approach in which they are cared for primarily by midwives rather than obstetricians.

The vast majority of births in Ireland take place in hospital, either in a dedicated maternity hospital or in the maternity unit of an acute hospital, but some women choose to have their baby at home and others choose a more low - tech approach such as a birth centre or a midwifery led unit in which they are cared for primarily by midwives rather than obstetricians.

No doubt I'd rather have a cardiac arrest in hospital than in my GP's surgery, although both GPs and hospital doctors have had CPr training.

Nowadays, most hospital deliveries are more likely to be in a «reclining» position, sitting partially up on a hospital bed rather than totally flat.

It's still measurably higher risk than if it's her second uncomplicated pregnancy (and personally I'd rather know in advance if I were delivering in the hospital) but it's not insane.

As mother's opted to use physicians to give birth in hospitals or clinics, rather than using a midwife for home birth, the practice of routine circumcision of male infants blossomed and became nearly universal.

Giving birth by cesarean, or c - section, is on the rise in hospitals as well as among women who are choosing to give birth via cesarean rather than vaginally.

The problem I see is that direct entry midwives in the United States will often attend home births that do not fit these criteria; while insisting that home birth is at least as safe as hospital birth, many will attend twin births, breech births, births after 41 weeks, births of women who have pre-existing or pregnancy - induced disease, births after two or more previous caesarean sections, and births of women whose labor has been jump - started rather than begun spontaneously (whether by herbs, prolonged nipple stimulation, the breaking of her water, or illicit use of medications).

At home, anyone is allowed to be present at the birth rather than just one or two people permitted in a hospital delivery room.

Doctors in the studies speculate that this may be happening due to an impaired immune response in C - section babies who are first exposed to bacteria in a hospital environment rather than from the vaginal fluid of their mother.

I liked the idea that Ceal would monitor the baby's heart rate every 5 to 15 minutes during labor, and every 5 to 10 minutes while I was pushing, rather than strapping a fetal monitor on me and leaving it there, as is standard in the hospital.

In such a case, would it not be better to allow gravity, i.e; the birth mother standing and moving whilst in labour, to take charge rather than the birthing mother instead lying on her back in an ambulance and then hospital along with the accompanying substantial increase in stress levels?I suppose all I am trying to say is that IF my partner and I were to have a second baby, I really would like to support my partner once more in having a home birtIn such a case, would it not be better to allow gravity, i.e; the birth mother standing and moving whilst in labour, to take charge rather than the birthing mother instead lying on her back in an ambulance and then hospital along with the accompanying substantial increase in stress levels?I suppose all I am trying to say is that IF my partner and I were to have a second baby, I really would like to support my partner once more in having a home birtin labour, to take charge rather than the birthing mother instead lying on her back in an ambulance and then hospital along with the accompanying substantial increase in stress levels?I suppose all I am trying to say is that IF my partner and I were to have a second baby, I really would like to support my partner once more in having a home birtin an ambulance and then hospital along with the accompanying substantial increase in stress levels?I suppose all I am trying to say is that IF my partner and I were to have a second baby, I really would like to support my partner once more in having a home birtin stress levels?I suppose all I am trying to say is that IF my partner and I were to have a second baby, I really would like to support my partner once more in having a home birtin having a home birth.

23 Therefore, the higher rate of admission (or readmission if a hospital birth) among newborns in the planned home - birth group than of readmission in the planned hospital - birth group may have been linked to the need for treatment of hyper - bilirubinemia, which, among babies born in hospital, may require a longer stay in hospital rather than readmission.

Still, although it felt good to be doing something useful while my babies were in the hospital, I never got over feeling like a dairy cow rather than a person.

So seeing somebody in hospital, but also, once you get home, having trouble at home, a lot of moms are discharged even before their milk comes in, and then the milk comes in sometimes, if there are issues with engorgement or whatever the issue may be, but a lot of moms have a tendency to wait and see, there is this sort of mentality of, «breastfeeding is natural and I should be able to do this, I shouldn't need help», but it really is a learned skill and it's better to get help sooner rather than later because the sooner breastfeeding problems are addressed, the better chance we have of being able to resolve them.

Hospitalists are medical specialists who, rather than specializing in a particular area of the body, focus on giving you or your child the best possible care during a hospital stay.

Many pregnant women don't know that when it comes to giving birth they have another option: rather than doing time at the hospital, you may decide to have your baby in a birthing center.

In an analysis based on actual place of birth rather than planned birth location, they found no significant differences in fetal, neonatal, or perinatal mortality between in - hospital and out - of - hospital birthIn an analysis based on actual place of birth rather than planned birth location, they found no significant differences in fetal, neonatal, or perinatal mortality between in - hospital and out - of - hospital birthin fetal, neonatal, or perinatal mortality between in - hospital and out - of - hospital birthin - hospital and out - of - hospital births.

Cobedding of twins and other infants of multiple gestation is a frequent practice, both in the hospital setting and at home.174 However, the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples have not been established.175, — , 177 Twins and higher - order multiples are often born prematurely and with low birth weight, so they are at increased risk of SIDS.101, 102 Furthermore, there is increased potential for overheating and rebreathing while cobedding, and size discordance might increase the risk of accidental suffocation.176 Most cobedded twins are placed on their sides rather than supine.174 Finally, cobedding of twins and higher - order multiples in the hospital setting might encourage parents to continue this practice at home.176 Because the evidence for the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples is not compelling and because of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffocation.

A number of non-invasive, non-pharmocological solutions have been shown scientifically to be as effective as active management in lowering cesarean section rates: a companion in labor in the hospital (Thornton and Lilford 1994), midwives rather than doctors as the principle birth attendants in hospital births of women without complications (Wagner 1994), out - of - hospital birth centers (Rooks et al. 1990), and planned home birth (Wagner 1994).

Beverly Flaxington wanted to give birth to her son, Kiernan, in a home setting rather than a hospital.

I was introduced to Carmen, our nurse (Cheshire provides one - on - one nursing care during labor and delivery, rather than one nurse in charge of several rooms like at many urban hospitals).

(Check if the external food is allowed in your hospital, some hospitals with their own canteens, do not allow external food) You can also stock some nappies and towels at home for your baby in advance so that you can take rest and take care of your baby after coming home rather than getting to work immediately.

I even chose to go to a birth center in New Hampshire, rather than having a home birth in Massachusetts where I live, because the laws regarding midwifery are different in New Hampshire and I knew that should I need to transfer to a medical facility, a New Hampshire midwife would get a lot more respect at a New Hampshire hospital than a Mass. midwife at a Mass. hospital.

And we will look at the law to make sure the inspector's judgement is about whether a hospital is clean, safe and caring - rather than an exercise in bureaucratic box ticking.

Andy Burnham has begun to sketch out a joined up health and care system that will keep people out of hospital and will allow older people to die in dignity rather than being left in hospitals that can't give them the care and attention they need.

«Rather than a guaranty fund tax, to address the immediate problem we would propose use of state dollars analogous to the state funds being used to bail out failing hospitals in New York.»

It also seeks to ensure «all resources gained from any sale or transfer of LICH assets» will go toward the hospital, rather than being diverted to other venues in the interim of deciding its fate and authorizes «the Speaker to file or join amicus briefs on behalf of the Council in support of preserving services,» according to the resolution.