Sentences with phrase «which was in a hospital»

I've had shoulder dystocia three times, all of which were in hospital.

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At hospitals across the country, in fact, there is an entrenched doctor shortage, which has grown only more acute as millions of Americans have gained health coverage in recent years.

Massoumi says he's found that a critical hiring strategy is subjecting new hires to a role - playing scenario, in which someone applying for an enterprise - sales role, for instance, might have to pitch ZocDoc to another employee acting as a member of a hospital system.

The consultants estimate that the use of such surgical technology, which includes machine learning and other forms of AI, will result not only in better outcomes but also in a 21 percent reduction in the length of patient hospital stays.

In a 60 - second cinema and TV spot (which ran during the Super Bowl), Canadian forces are shown doing everything from jumping from a C - 130 Hercules aircraft to shouting instructions inside a field hospital and handing out humanitarian supplies.

CrowdOptic, which uses Glass as portable computers for surgeons and other people out of offices, is currently in use at 19 U.S. hospitals and expects that to grow to 100 hospitals early next year, said Chief Executive Jon Fisher.

This increase in abnormal test results can have negative consequences for medicine in the form of extra testing, additional patient visits to clinics / hospitals, and added doctor services, all of which result in additional costs and burdens to patients or to the healthcare system and are potentially harmful.

According to an analysis of 2010 data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital costs for just that year and $ 174 billion in larger societal costs, which includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.

Healthcare delivery is different in the UK depending on where you live and which doctors and hospitals you use — just as it is in the US.

«We are trying to do everything to minimize hospital - acquired infection except for the most obvious and easiest thing to do in my opinion, which is to stop shaking hands,» UCLA professor of pediatrics and cardiologist Dr. Mark Sklansky tells NPR.

When I was in Germany, I spent most of my time at the Landstuhl hospital, which is one of the best in the world, and that helped me a lot.

Dr. Iqbal Master, who heads up TB care at King Dinuzulu Hospital in Durban, South Africa says Sirturo, which is used in conjunction with other meds, has «increased treatment success» in the most resistant patients.

The first phase, which is ongoing, is continuing to establish a presence in more hospitals in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Private hospitals are typically the best equipped, with state - of - the art technology and doctors that have studied in the world's best medical universities — many of them speak English and are well acquainted with the newest diagnostic and treatment procedures... some of which may not yet be available in the U.S., for example.

Product safety is unusually sensitive in China following scandals over the past decade in which infants, hospital patients and others have been killed or sickened by phoney or adulterated milk powder, drugs and other goods.

Some opponents also pointed to provisions in earlier versions of the bill that could make it easier for drug companies to obscure their financial contributions to hospitals and doctors under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which is part of Obamacare.

The types of medications include antibiotics, anti-arrhythmics, pain killers, anti-nauseates — bread - and - butter medications which are required everyday in hospitals.

The disease management program resulted in fewer hospital visits for workers, which was a significant factor in cost reduction, the study found.

AirStrip is the leading player in the new mHealth subindustry of remote patient monitoring, which allows clinicians to get detailed, real - time readouts of monitors on their tablets or smartphones anywhere in or out of the hospital.

Yet in a new Manhattan Institute study of New York State hospital ratings on Yelp, which boasts some 140 million unique monthly users, Yelp reviews were correlated with better medical care.

Activist hedge fund group Camber Capital Management has taken a 5.7 % stake in hospital chain Tenet Healthcare, which has been losing money amid declining patient admissions.

«In advance of this data, my assumption was always that the average U.S. employee selected healthcare like the non-educated American picks wine — just by price,» says Jeff Oldham, vice president of Benefitfocus's Benefitstore unit, which specializes in voluntary benefits (e.g. coverage for things like critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accidentsIn advance of this data, my assumption was always that the average U.S. employee selected healthcare like the non-educated American picks wine — just by price,» says Jeff Oldham, vice president of Benefitfocus's Benefitstore unit, which specializes in voluntary benefits (e.g. coverage for things like critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accidentsin voluntary benefits (e.g. coverage for things like critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accidents).

In Singapore, we are covered by a government - administered insurance called MediShield Life, which provides coverage for treatments at public hospitals.

There has been a total of 83 rural hospital closures in the United States from January 2010 to January 2018, according to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, a group which tracks rural hospital closures across the country.

Mandiant was also called upon to investigate the last major attack to hit the health sector, which involved Community Health Systems, a Tennessee - based hospital operator, in August.

Fourteen of 23 top hospitals contacted by Reuters said they have rolled out a pilot program of Apple's HealthKit service - which acts as a repository for patient - generated health information like blood pressure, weight or heart rate - or are in talks to do so.

Beaumont Health System in Royal Oak, Michigan, and Munson Healthcare in Traverse City are requiring shots, which the American Hospital Association recommends.

The San Bruno Police Department said later in a press release that «a total of four people were transported to local hospitals, three of which had gunshot wounds.»

Stemming from that collaboration, the Big Ass team began taking a closer look at UV lights, which were used in Butaro Hospital to destroy or inactivate microbes.

«We did some sampling, and it was unusually delicious,» confirms Glen Jackson, general manager of Ryan Vending, which will sell Luvo products through its network of machines in B.C. hospitals and colleges.

Southern Cross Care WA has purchased the state government - owned Kaleeya Hospital in East Fremantle for $ 17.5 million, which is the first property sold under the state government's asset sales program announced earlier this year.

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

Since FHG is vendor agnostic, we would assist hospitals and physician offices in their HIT vendor selection, identify which HIT vendors provide the best financial value, and show through the EMR adoption process whether the organization would receive full or partial funding from the stimulus package.

The third smartest company, in fact, is Illumina, which develops DNA reading machines that are now being adopted in practical applications in hospitals and cancer clinics.

Premier Inc., which negotiates on behalf of 3,750 U.S. hospitals and 130,000 other health - care providers, said it's getting percentage discounts in the mid-teens, on average, and more of its members are getting discounts than before the May program was unveiled.

Hartford HealthCare, which operates Hartford Hospital and five other hospitals in Connecticut, will announce a joint venture Wednesday to form a health insurance company, a first for Connecticut and another sign of transformation that is shaking up the...

Autodesk software was also used in the construction of Toronto's Humber River Hospital, North America's first fully digital hospital, which opened in OctobHospital, North America's first fully digital hospital, which opened in Octobhospital, which opened in October 2015.

Another company that Dodson is looking at, but hasn't yet invested in, is MEDNAX Inc, which staffs physicians for hospital delivery rooms, including neo-natal care and anesthesiologists.

They are perhaps most well - known in the community for their $ 20 million donation to the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation — the largest donation in the foundation's history — which led to the creation of the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, one of the top facilities of its kind in Canada.

About Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Children's Miracle Network Hospitals raises funds for 170 children's hospitals across the United States and Canada, which, in turn, use the money where it's needed Hospitals Children's Miracle Network Hospitals raises funds for 170 children's hospitals across the United States and Canada, which, in turn, use the money where it's needed Hospitals raises funds for 170 children's hospitals across the United States and Canada, which, in turn, use the money where it's needed hospitals across the United States and Canada, which, in turn, use the money where it's needed the most.

A Melbourne hospital is the first in Australia to adopt an early warning blood test for the potential deadly condition pre-eclampsia, which is experienced by about one in 20 women during their pregnancies.

The commonly prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx was withdrawn after it was linked with heart attacks and strokes, a drug trial which went horribly wrong left six men fighting for their lives in intensive care, hospitals were names and shamed for MRSA and Clostridium difficile deaths, and measles made a come back after public confidence in the MMR vaccine plummeted.

Among its list of defining quotes of 2015, Rock Health included one from a physician who was frustrated with the fact that, as she put it, «In my hospital there are 19 software systems across departments — few of which communicate with each other.»

EDMONTON — Today, NDP Leader Rachel Notley released a letter in which Alberta Auditor General Merwyn Saher advised Notley he would be proceeding with an investigation into the province's methodology for calculating and reporting the conditions of healthcare facilities and the process for determining condition ratings of hospitals.

«The dead are at the hospital morgues, which are at capacity and in remote places where the government has yet to go.

She explains in her investigation that she was told «the dead are at the hospital morgues, which are at capacity and in remote places where the government has yet to go.

«Apparently not everyone has common sense to call 911 in an emergency and evacuate people to the hospital across the street,» Edwards said, referring to The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, which is across the street from Memorial Regional Hhospital across the street,» Edwards said, referring to The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, which is across the street from Memorial Regional HospitalHospital.

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

Conde was killed in an operation in which another U.S. service member was wounded and medically evacuated to Bagram Airfield north of Kabul for medical treatment in a military hospital.

This act has now become the law of the land and requires that patients on admission to a hospital or other institutions in receipt of federal health care funds be questioned about Advance Directives» which are a Living Will, Health Care Agent, Durable Power of Attorney» so that if unable to express an opinion, the patient's wishes concerning life - sustaining technologies will have been made known.