Sentences with phrase «rather than the hospital»

«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.»

But if a woman wants a homebirth, rather than a hospital birth... what about that?

Main worries about breech deliveries are the cord becoming pinched or baby's head becoming stuck, so talk to a seasoned midwife rather than a hospital OB who's likely never handled either situation.

Exactly how it sounds, a home birth is the decision to go through labor and childbirth at home rather than the hospital.

For every 500 women who choose home birth rather than hospital birth, 1 will end up with a dead baby who would have had a live baby otherwise.

However, that practice is slowly changing as new parents move towards more holistic and traditional methods of childbirth, such as the use of doulas or midwives, rather than hospital births.

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

Sullivan, head of the Office of Mental Health, said the move would allow the state to save millions of dollars and redirect that money toward other local services geared toward treating children in their own communities rather than a hospital setting.

One analysis estimated that cataract surgeries performed at ambulatory surgery centers rather than hospitals saved Medicare $ 829 million in 2011.

He looked around at the neat, softly lit room that tried hard to pretend it belonged to an expensive hotel rather than a hospital.

Recover at home rather than the hospital.

The court ruled that Ms B could not be a «mental health patient» because she was accommodated in registered care home rather than a hospital.

Not exact matches

Regulatory and social issues could also be factors many hospital patients will want a human nurse rather than a robot to care for them when they wake up after surgery.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

Sometimes a trip to the hospital makes things worse, rather than better.

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.

When royalty revenues weren't enough to cover the cost of public services the government defaulted to cutting services rather than cutting waste, including patronage appointments to 320 agencies, boards and commissions or sweetheart deals with their friends (the Holy Cross Hospital springs to mind).

The hospital has updated its drills to include an accelerated process of police screening of the medical staff most urgently needed, and its training videos now show an attacker armed with an assault weapon rather than a small handgun.

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.

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.

Above all, the group is very much a hospital for sinners rather than a hotel for saints.

Only thus can they be gardens and hospitals, places of growth and healing, rather than museums.

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.

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.

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

At first he was very impressed by the Italians as rather better at many of life's tasks than the Germans — they seemed to get drunk less often and less obviously, they cut their clothes better, they were more polite and their hospitals were more efficient, cleaner and more obviously Christian.

Kathy Alexander, chair of Administrators of the City of Greater Geelong and former CEO of the Royal Children's and Royal Women's Hospitals Melbourne from 2000 to 2004, says women (or men) who take time out to raise children should focus on the positives of that experience and how it might actually make them a better leader — rather than expect negative consequences.

The hospital's café serves up tofu stir - fry, Greek salad made with tofu rather than goat cheese and a yummy tofu breakfast scramble based on a recipe from The HSUS.

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.

The Szabos thought that seemed extreme and rather than succumb to the hospital's new policy, a few weeks before her due date Joy moved into a Phoenix apartment 350 miles away from her husband and three children while she waited to go into labor.

While seven months pregnant with her fourth child, Joy Szabo was told by her local hospital that she would be required to have a repeat cesarean section rather than allow her to have the birth she wanted, a VBAC.

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.

«Rather than marketing products directly to consumers, the companies used cash grants, free formula and other baby products to persuade hospitals and physicians to endorse a particular formula to their patients,» Doyle said.

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.

It's a social and economic issue rather than a failure on the hospital's part.

Rather than go to the local hospital, though, they decided to drive all the way across Belgium to take him to a «homeopathic doctor.»

(Many moms and doctors love the NoseFrida nasal aspirator, rather than the usual bulb ones they give you at the hospital.)

I wanted my child to enter a world filled with love and friendship, rather than the sterility of a hospital full of strangers with no guarantees of who was on - call that night.

Despite the fact that the United States spends more money on health care than any other country — and more on maternity care than any other type of hospital care — maternal mortality rates are actually increasing for U.S. women rather than decreasing.

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

Ina Maey also let her own baby die rather than take him to a hospital.

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.

Hospitals are also being asked to encourage new mothers to breastfeed their newborns right after birth, rather than offering them formula.

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

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).

«Hospitals tend to turn the birth of a child into an organised, sanitised affaire over which the professionals, rather than mothers have control.»

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.