I was so busy learning about breastfeeding and gathering all the information I could on that subject, the thought that there was any other way to have a baby, other
than in the hospital with pain medication never even occurred to me.
Not exact matches
In 2014, the most recent data available from the CDC, Americans visited the emergency room 141 million times, with fewer than 8 % of these trips resulting in a hospital admissio
In 2014, the most recent data available from the CDC, Americans visited the emergency room 141 million times,
with fewer
than 8 % of these trips resulting
in a hospital admissio
in a
hospital admission.
Matt McCracken: I am a former CIO
with more
than 25 years of experience
in business process management / integration across a broad spectrum of industries, including software development companies for accounting, dental practice management, and
hospitals.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships
with physicians,
hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including
with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes
in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation
in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time
than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated
with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed
in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.
With Polaris as our largest investor, we expanded Ascend's
hospital chain to 5 states; our patient bed count went up more
than 8 times; and we generated $ 200 million
in annual revenue and $ 60 million
in profits — all
in 4 years.
The
hospital was also one of fewer
than 40 organizations
in the U.S. to receive the Worksite Innovation award for getting creative
with employee wellness strategies.
The Red Cross supplies our
hospital partners
in Puerto Rico
with blood products collected in the continental U.S. With local blood collections on the island significantly impacted by Hurricane Maria, the Red Cross has provided more than 1,000 blood and platelet products to help hospitals the Red Cross does not typically sup
with blood products collected
in the continental U.S.
With local blood collections on the island significantly impacted by Hurricane Maria, the Red Cross has provided more than 1,000 blood and platelet products to help hospitals the Red Cross does not typically sup
With local blood collections on the island significantly impacted by Hurricane Maria, the Red Cross has provided more
than 1,000 blood and platelet products to help
hospitals the Red Cross does not typically supply.
When you're
in the
hospital with a cellulitis and the only thing that will save your life is more
than a century of research and development, I'd like to be there to see if you take a side.
Whatever balance may be struck
in these areas of mixed secular and religious services funded by tax money, the mixture is inherently unstable and will tend to move
in one direction or the other, usually toward increased responsiveness to broader interests
than those of the sponsoring church (which is often called «secularization»)-- a process seen
in church - related colleges and
hospitals even without tax funding, which merely makes it happen quicker and sometimes
with the force of law.
CNN: Hotel replaces printed Bibles
with Kindles Last year, Gideons International distributed more
than 84 million printed copies of the Bible around the world to students,
hospitals, members of the military and, of course, hotels, where they are a ubiquitous sight
in bedside tables.
Illustrates clearly what Christopher Hitchens was saying
in his book «The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa
in Theory and Practice», specifically how her
hospitals were more keen on proselytizing to the dying
than actually helping them
with their pain.
He had spent a lot of time
in the
hospital with internal bleeding (the common plight of hemophiliacs, whose blood is missing a key ingredient to cause clotting) He was given more
than 50 transfusions.
More people
with mental illness are housed
in Los Angeles County Jail
than in any psychiatric
hospital in this country.
Reality... Sorry to fail you It turned to have been a small internal bleeding
in the personality sector of my brain that had left me unconscious for more
than three days
in hospital... but thanks to mercy of God and prayers of my family I was able to recover
with out any damages what so ever... Any way only today I managed to get an internet line to communicate herewith tonight from Amman, Jordan... It is a pleasant weather here cool and rainy wet...!
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.
As a result of his efforts, along
with those of the mental health societies (the change from «hygiene» to «health» came
in the 1940s) and many other groups, including the professionals, it is safe to say that most mental
hospitals are better now
than they were a generation ago.
This is the philosophy of Food Management Group (FMG) Inc., which prepares healthy food for
hospitals in specialty settings
with fewer
than 100 beds.
MGH conducts the largest
hospital - based research program
in the United States,
with an annual research budget of more
than $ 775 million.
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.
None of the parents knew that their beloved and winning coach — this glib, engaging soul who had lived
with and among them, who had so generously baby - sat their kids, taken the youngsters to movies and bought them expensive gifts — had undergone more
than five years of treatment
in two state mental
hospitals for child molesting.
Open murder of political dissidents and opposition both at home and abroad, ww2 style land grabs, purposely bombing syrian
hospitals, censorship of the entire populace
with intelligence services meting out punishments, having a sham of a judiciary and media while telling more lies
than truth to its populace thereby eroding their confidence
in any information to enlighten them (much like what the authoritarian right is trying to do here).
Birth centers provide an
in - between choice for parents who would like to deliver outside of a
hospital setting but
with more help
than they would be able to get at home.
At Advocate, the first
hospital in the area to feed low birth weight babies and others at risk for the condition exclusively
with breast milk, NEC is down by more
than half, said Jeffrey George,
hospital director of neonatology.
There are four emergency situations that can better be dealt
with in hospital than at home and they can be easily remembered
with the mnemonic device CRAP:
And most of all, because there are NO guarantees, one way or the other - the numbers on safety and well being
with home births are better
than those
in the
hospital.
Low risk birth
in the Netherlands at home
with a midwife is more likely to result
in a DEAD baby
than high risk birth
in a
hospital with a doctor.
And this paper
in the BMJ suggest low risk moms
with midwives at home have a higher mortality rate
than all the high risk moms
in hospitals.
With a mortality rate of almost 5x higher
than hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria
in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.
Low risk women
in primary care at the onset of labour
with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta
than those
with planned
hospital birth.
• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more
than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship
with its mother more
than it values a child's relationship
with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree
with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time
in school reading
with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight
with their partner
in hospital when their baby is born.
This new set of NICE guidelines concluded that healthy women
with straightforward pregnancies are safer to give birth at home, or
in a midwife - led birth centre,
than at a
hospital with the care of an obstetrician.
I would be more
than happy to help get
in touch
with the
hospital if it's needed.
The higher risk obstetric wards were also really lovely,
with communal sitting rooms for post-partum women and the offer of iPod players, electric tealight «candles», electric oil burners, etc. the ob wards were definitely more «sterile»
than the FBCs, but at the end of the day you're staying
in a
hospital, not a five star hotel.
My question is: how long did you wait
with your first baby to go to the
hospital (or think makes the most sense, if you feel you went
in earlier
than necessary)?
Working
with June these last two births has been so much more personal
than the 5 births
in the
hospital.
Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice,
with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %,
with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated
with lower intervention rates
than standard maternity care.24 Variation
in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater
than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's
Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.
Conclusions: Low risk women
in primary care at the onset of labour
with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta
than those
with planned
hospital birth.
In my area, we have a large plain population that will birth at home regardless, so it's safer to have regulated CNMs
with hospital privileges doing it
than the underground midwives some would otherwise turn to.
We have the data that shows homebirth mortality rates
with CPMs is 5.4 / 1000 which is actually 7 - 9 xs greater
than in hospital births
with similar co-factors.
Planned homebirth
with a licensed homebirth midwife
in Oregon has a death rate 9X higher
than term births
in the
hospital.
It would appear that respondents are seeking information from a much wider variety of sources
than in 2010,
with hospital websites featuring quite highly for the first time.
Home birth
with a midwife, apprentice, doula, birth photographer etc. isn't following his «mammalian model» anymore
than a lady delivering
in a
hospital.
7 - 9 - x's greater
than that of
in hospital births by CNMs
with similar cohorts.
Second, the authors ACTUALLY showed that homebirth
with a CPM
in 2000 had a mortality rate 3X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth
in 2000.
All of this, along
with improvements
in technology, has contributed to making home births just as safe, if not safer
than hospital births.
I've used the CDC Wonder data from 2003 - 2008 to demonstrate that
in each year, planned homebirth
with a homebirth midwives has a neonatal death rate anywhere from 3 - 7X higher
than hospital birth.
The FACT is... more women DO die
in hospital births (from things that could be prevented, or from unnecessary interventions)
than in home births, and that women were NOT «dying
in droves» from home births back
in the day... death during birth was fairly uncommon until women were forced into dirty birth centers
with doctors knocking them out and delivering their babies without being held to any sanitation standards because promiscuity was on the rise and we had to keep the «dirty women» separate from the rest of the
hospital.
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.
Most first births are slower
than actively managed maternity units would like and so labours
in hospitals get hurried along by either physical or chemical means, and whilst most babies can cope well
with this artificial speeding up of the labour, some find it a challenge and become distressed requiring further interventions.
«
With younger babies, parents always think the crying is going to go on longer
than it usually does,» agrees Pamela High, M.D., medical director of the infant development unit at Women & Infants»
Hospital,
in Providence.