Sentences with phrase «state health officials»

After the incident, state health officials said the chicken had ammonia contamination levels as high as 133 times the acceptable amount.

The addition of chronic pain to its qualification list comes as state health officials have also moved to allow physician assistants and nurse practitioners to certify patients for medical marijuana.

Insurance executives said they were shocked last week when state health officials reversed course and discussed requiring insurers to offer out - of - network coverage for all exchange plans.

He says more research needs to be funded, and he questioned whether state health officials are doing enough.

For domestic air travel, state health officials generally require health certificates for all animals.

New York state health officials say it has been a busy few weeks for the state health - insurance exchange's open - enrollment period as it adjusts to the collapse of the system's only co-op and incorporates a new low - cost coverage plan.

Soon after he had the surgery, local news outlets began reporting on the fact that the cardiologist he had trusted was being investigated by state health officials for performing unnecessary surgeries.

State health officials also noted times when studies have backed up residents» concerns, like a 2012 investigation that showed increased leukemia among men in Liberty, Sullivan County, after a gasoline additive poisoned the village's water supply sometime before 1992.

Add this to the ongoing feud between de Blasio and Cuomo — the city's broke Health and Hospitals Corporation is suing state health officials for refusing to reimburse $ 1.4 million in medical care given to five undocumented immigrants.

Nearly a year and a half passed, for instance, from the time the chemical was discovered in the water — by a concerned resident — to the warning from state health officials that residents avoid drinking it.

Until recently state health officials did not require physicians and hospitals to report Zika virus disease, so it is possible that some cases may have not been captured by state records.

State health officials on Tuesday blamed the feds for an upstate water - contamination crisis, claiming the Environmental Protection Agency offered «confusing» guidance on drinking - water safety.

State health officials warned New Yorkers to take precautions against Zika virus and other mosquito - borne illnesses like West Nile virus, as the weather heats up.

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

These and other steps must be implemented within a year, Dennis G. Smith, director of the federal Center for Medicaid and State Operations, advised state health officials in a letter on Friday.

New York State Health Officials plan to announce this week the companies selected to operate medical

This week, Louisiana state health officials asked anyone who has traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea in the past 21 days, or has treated Ebola patients elsewhere, to stay away from the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which begins on Sunday in New Orleans.

Today, Louisiana state health officials asked anyone who has traveled to Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea in the past 21 days, or has treated Ebola patients elsewhere, to stay away from the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), which begins on Sunday in New Orleans.

State health officials issued a notice Wednesday warning that any visitors to the Birmingham Zoo's aviary in the past 30 days may have been exposed to a psittacosis, which can spread from birds to humans.

State health officials subsequently determined that nine minors had received abortions from the clinic without proper verification of parental consent.

State health officials found 19 instances of safety or security lapses that put New York City hospital patients in «immediate jeopardy,» including failure to investigate sexual - abuse allegations, sending home a suicidal patient to his death and poor infection control.

And state health officials continued to underscore the importance of discussing the results with one's health care provider.

The only commitment is to present a plan, although state health officials hope Northwell sticks around to help implement the strategy it devises.

Seminerio pleaded guilty in June 2009 to taking more than $ 300,000 from Jamaica Hospital administrators in exchange for approaching state health officials to promote their interests.

State health officials announced Tuesday it would move from the original December 15th deadline to Saturday 19th.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued subpoenas Wednesday to investigate whether Allure Group misled state health officials to turn a Nostrand Ave. nursing home into residential apartments in gentrifying Bedford - Stuyvesant, where rents are rising dramatically.

Over the past year, County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein has quietly complained about a lack of communication with city officials, to the point where she had a ranking state health official write Brown requesting a meeting.

And after state health officials had already helped distribute bottled water and installed filtration systems.

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As a result, state health officials denied Soundview's application last year to resume financing from the federal Women, Infants and Children program, which provides food and nutritional counseling to new mothers and young children.

State health officials assured residents for months that the water was safe to drink even though samples were well above safe federal PFOA limits.

State health officials confirmed the death last week, but did not identify him.

State lawmakers passed the law in 2014 but it took state health officials 18 months to finalize the rules and select the five companies that will produce and dispense the drugs.

It was not until January 27 of this year that the state Department of Environmental Protection and state health officials finally issued emergency regulations.

Why did state health officials consistently say it was safe to drink the water in Hoosick Falls because it contained fewer than 50,000 parts per trillion of PFOA when federal regulators cautioned 400 parts per trillion was the recommended safety level?

Governor Cuomo & State health officials held a press conference this morning, blasting Congressman Chris Collins of Buffalo and area congressman John Faso for supporting the House Republican health care bill and the push to have the state assume county... Continue reading →

But state health officials told the university this week that the scheme to sequence and analyze the DNA of individual volunteers would be a form of unapproved medical practice, according to reports in the San Jose Mercury News.

In Mississippi, state health officials report that the number of new cases of HIV among black men aged 13 to 31 years who had sex with other men rose by 48 percent from 2005 to 2007.

Twenty years later, he heard about the mineral's connection to cancer in Cappadocia and alerted state health officials.

United States health officials say pregnant women should not travel to an area north of downtown Miami that has active Zika transmission.

Dish also got state health officials to come and check residents» blood and urine for toxins.

State health officials concluded, in their investigation into probable causes of a high rate of birth defects and miscarriages among teachers and staff members, that at least some of the health complaints at the school were related to an insufficient flow of fresh air, according to Robert G. Dickie, the principal.

«So far the EPA has taken a passive role, allowing state health officials to take the lead.»

Many state health officials said the threat made insurance companies skittish about offering plans on the exchange.

State health officials cited the footage in an October open letter to the organization's Texas affiliates as a reason to cut them off the state's Medicaid program.

State health officials recommend that all Hoosiers know their HIV status through testing at a health care facility.

New York state health officials are warning against possible measles exposures in Saratoga and Warren Counties.