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We have worked closely with our legislators to explain our position on this bill as have other hospitals across the state. There's strong opposition to it from both sides of the aisle.

We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

We need to alert the community to a critical blood shortage. Hospitals across the state are requesting more units of blood to meet the needs of accident, surgical and cancer patients.

We have not read the opinion but we are aware of the denial of the Certificate of Need. We are very disappointed in this opinion. The opposition of the CON by several Harrison County hospitals who are owned by for-profit out-of-state interests is very unfortunate.

We are in touch with the health authorities and they have confirmed to us that there is no human case reported to hospitals so far.

Those hospitals in the vanguard, who have organized to provide that kind of coordinated treatment, are able to bring patients in and treat them very quickly, ... But more hospitals and physicians and patients are not organized in that way.

When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.

We are confident that shared values of Wockhardt Hospitals and Fortis Healthcare will form the basis for our continued success in the future.

This study gives us the ability to benchmark with other hospitals in the area. This is a team effort, from the ER to the caregivers on the floor.

We are moving the expertise that is scattered across three hospitals to one area.

When we would call other hospitals to see what they do, most said they didn't know. For other people, it's no big deal.

We'll start with the hospitals because they are the most difficult and the most necessary,

Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

We understand that the Louisiana attorney general is investigating all deaths that occurred at New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes after the hurricane, and we fully support and are cooperating with him.

The reality of it is that hospitals are the insurers of last resort, ... That policy decision has clearly been made by Congress and until there is some relief these are the kinds of earnings we can expect from hospitals.

There are many more people in teaching hospitals than there are in non-teaching hospitals, ... There is a lot of consultation that goes on.

We calculated that we had about 49.25 percent of what was needed. This was allocated out to nursing homes, hospitals and private facilities. We received 5,432 doses of flu vaccine to redistribute.

We know that most problems in hospitals are not due to one bad doctor or one bad nurse. Problems come from the systems in the organization. And by looking at the performance of the whole organization, we're able to look at those hospitals that have goals for true performance, leadership that stands behind it ...

We would like to see zero fuel duties, of course. But we have to put our hands on our hearts and admit that the government needs money for all kinds of things, and this is one way to get it. People do want their schools and hospitals to be better, so this is just practical politics.

This report card does not offer valid ground for reassurance. We have closed half of our hospitals since President Kennedy was inaugurated. In some parts of the state, it means substantially greater travel time to the emergency room.

There have been recent advances in technology so that hospitals now have options for sharps safety products that have a similar 'feel' to the surgeon and this has prompted the O.R. to make a serious effort in evaluating these new technologies.

We've decided to act as an industry rather than individual hospitals or hospital systems.

This year's study reflects the financial distress hospitals have encountered in the wake of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Despite the difficulties facing them, the 100 top benchmark hospitals have maintained profitability and top clinical performance.

With a threat this serious we had to start speaking with one powerful voice. When the government does something good we will be there to back it up. But when it fails we will be making noise. Climate change should be an electoral issue, like schools, hospitals and terrorism.

This shows that the care being delivered is not ideal, as in up to one in four cases, patients are not receiving medicines that are proven to save lives. But the data also shows that there is wide variance among hospitals - some are near perfect in the use of certain drugs while others are down in the 50 percent to 60 percent range of adherence. This shows that there still is much room for improvement.

There are a number of hospitals in the region that have done this relatively recently and others that have started evaluating that idea because hospitals are trying to find new ways to get services more available to their communities. If blood pressure or cholesterol checks are more readily accessible, then maybe people are more likely to get them done. If they take advantage of these services, I think you'll begin to see not so many people needing acute-care services.

There are a large number of Mexican citizens who come for medical care. Regular Mexican nationals are passing away in hospitals in Tucson. It happens quite a bit.

The plan would shift $400 million in state spending to the partnership from money the state now pays hospitals and clinics who treat the uninsured.

We are excited to welcome the hospitals from one of the nation's great academic medical centers as Premier owners. UT Southwestern Medical Center adds to Premier's strong position in the fast-growing Dallas-Fort Worth market. More important, we are now partners with one of the leading research and patient care centers. We look forward to working with UT Southwestern to make its supply chain system world class as well.

The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.

We all know that the best hospitals are those that have figured out how to 'get it right' consistently -- the challenge is transferring that knowledge and practical know-how to those that aspire to be the best. Premier's Rapid Improvement Programs revolutionize knowledge transfer by providing access to best practices and collaboration with experts quickly and inexpensively -- right from the user's desktop.

Two air ambulances are needed for speedy evacuation of the casualties; four mobile hospitals are needed,

What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying vaccine. That's not readiness. That's stockpiling. We have got to have first responders who know what their role is, people who can get shots into people's arms quickly, and hospitals who can handle patients.

We found that success involved much more than skilled individual doctors and nurses. What distinguished these hospitals was how well they were organized, how teams functioned together, how the culture rewarded quality improvement and how they dealt with setbacks.

You have to have a 'wow' factor. The consumer is more demanding, more educated, and hospitals have to adapt. We want to stay in the forefront of creating change.

We help other hospitals and health care organizations become better prepared to respond to emergencies. It's a very global mandate overall.

We certainly think that patients and consumers will continue to expect hospitals and health care systems to publish their outcomes so (they) can make better decisions.

We certainly have standard procedures like most hospitals do. We are cooperating with the Department of Health and police to find out what was different that day.

We think it is unlikely that these changes will modify purchasing and demand characteristics of medical devices. Hospitals have traditionally had little leverage in reducing device costs.

We don't want to say, 'I told you so,' but these are the kinds of things we have been fearful of for quite some time. There are real problems with transporting inmates to all hospitals and not having sufficient security at those hospitals.

This new hurricane presents enormous additional challenges and hardships for everyone affected, and Aetna will do what we can to help our members get care and comfort, ... With so many people cut off from their usual physicians, hospitals and pharmacies, we are expanding our efforts to help members, in addition to continuing coverage even if they are unable to make premium payments.

We have experienced all too often that our wounded troops suffering from severe head trauma have had to be flown to hospitals such as Brook Army Medical Center in Texas to receive specialized head and brain trauma treatment. We are proposing the privately funded construction and donation of a specialized brain trauma unit on the west coast at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, California. The Freedom Is Not Free Foundation has garnered massive support from the civilian and corporate communities for such a site and we will be presenting our proposal for a Private Sector/Government funded partnership to make sure this project comes to fruition.

Both hospitals are constantly asking for more people. Of our graduates, 98 percent have jobs waiting for them, and most of them get jobs here locally.

both a strong marketplace among community hospitals for information technology and our competitive success within that marketplace.

Both of our main hospital buildings at Charity and University Hospitals are uninhabitable for health-care purposes. We don't believe it will ever be inhabitable again. We are forced to leave those buildings and start with a new footprint.

Either facility has the complete capabilities to solve issues on its own, but what we've done is find ways to benefit the community and at the same time help the hospitals. That allows us to work together ... in situations where hospitals sometimes find themselves competing.

East Alabama is one of the best hospitals in Alabama, so I've be enjoying it.

Everybody who goes into a hospital is at risk because the hospitals don't have the process and systems in place to prevent infections.

As the recognized leader in helping hospitals improve patient outcomes while at the same time lowering costs, Premier understands that many variables impact clinical quality and operational efficiency. For hospital executives and management, Rapid Improvement is a window into the culture and leadership that enables top-performing hospitals to achieve excellent results. For physicians and staff, this resource-rich tool offers a wealth of proven practices, policies and procedures that will allow them to generate significant quality and financial improvements in a short time.

As the number of public hospitals continues to decline, the concern remains to what extent non-profit and for-profit hospitals are taking or will take on greater responsibilities as safety net providers, and to what degree their focus is on attracting the healthiest of Medicaid patients, leaving the sickest and costliest patients to the care of the remaining public or major safety net hospitals.

At this point, people will be very alert in all the hospitals and we have been training the doctors in all the hospitals talking about this. Now, people are very alert if these kind of symptoms are being reported.

At this point in our national rollout, we are making our TV/DVD viewing systems and monthly educational DVD magazines available to hospitals that have multiple viewing locations. We have the opportunity to impact thousands of patients a day in each subscribing hospital location. As our overall viewership increases in these hospitals, it gives us a greater impact in terms of scoring higher advertising rates.

Cost is a big challenge. It's not like hospitals aren't used to paying a lot of money for important things like medical equipment, but it's a little more difficult to convince them that money is better spent on information technology rather than new medical technology.

Consider that 20 billion dollars in generic drug savings in just six therapy classes is the same amount America's community hospitals spend each year on uncompensated care for the uninsured.

Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.

Currently, fewer than half of health care workers get vaccinated for flu each year. When people who work in hospitals and health care facilities don't get vaccinated, they can pose a serious risk to their patients.

And they were never used to evacuate people out of hospitals or schools or nursing homes or the like. Where were the drivers of those buses if you know.

Eleven foreign medical teams are on the ground and have set up six field hospitals in the worst-hit areas along with six camps manned by Pakistani civil and military doctors

The results speak for themselves. The citizens of the state of Utah understand that private clubs and taverns are different from hospitals and office buildings.

The transportation money provides a ride, lodging and meals for children who need to go to our hospitals in Shreveport and Galveston.

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.

The way hospitals are managed is not acceptable for the public; you have people waiting three years for a hip replacement,

I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.

These new agreements offer product coverage for the neonatal specialty market. Each of these suppliers develops and market products and services that improve the quality of care for premature infants. Hospitals purchasing off these agreements can anticipate receiving up to a 10 percent savings.

The shrinkage of profitability is going to force the consolidation or cessation of services that live on the profitability of other services. You never see these limited-service hospitals start without the leverage of the physician-ownership piece.

The surveillance system depends on people showing up in hospitals or health care centers. The Ministry of Health recognizes this is an issue.

I've always been concerned about this dangerously cozy relationship between the joint commission and the hospital industry generally, and the individual hospitals that it looks at,

I've always felt that two hospitals was good for the community. The competition has kept both hospitals on their toes.

Teaching hospitals are big places, ... So it's much more difficult to inject that kind of behavior.

Tenet is dedicated to promoting quality patient care in the communities we serve. We are pleased that the American Heart Association has recognized the dedication and achievements of these hospitals and staff, and we will continue to build off this success.

Tenet continues to believe that physician relocation agreements such as those entered into by Alvarado are a common practice used by many hospitals to bring needed health care resources to their communities. This case has amply demonstrated that the law surrounding physician relocation agreements is complicated and subject to differing interpretations.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

Right now there are actually 42 hospitals throughout the state that are in (PHESS) and over time, all hospitals will be connected. But we have to start somewhere, work out the bugs and get the system in place.

Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they are disappearing from the suburbs as well.

put their cross on their ballot paper for continued economic stability in the coming years and to put schools and hospitals first.

Other people took calls for us. Both hospitals were just great to let us go so quickly.

Our analysis, which includes patients treated in all types of hospitals across the country, shows that dosing errors occur more often in vulnerable patients, such as women, the elderly, or those with kidney insufficiency or low body weight.

People should be able to assume that hospitals are serving them the healthiest food possible. In this case, their trust has clearly been betrayed.

People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are coming to us very late.

Deep-fried foods probably shouldn't be served in hospitals in the first place, but foods high in trans fat should certainly be excluded.

Competition among hospitals results in lower prices, greater quality of care, and increased innovation for healthcare consumers. The antitrust division will continue to be vigilant in ensuring that hospitals and other healthcare providers do not unreasonably deprive consumers of the benefits of competition.

Despite its best efforts, HCA hospitals experienced weaker profitable admissions, intensifying local competition, higher operating costs and fast-rising uninsured patient volumes. HCA's fourth-quarter performance showcases the hospital industry's increasingly turbulent and tumultuous environment.

As heat rises, so does the number of people trying to cool down homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. This isn't just about comfort; it's a matter of public health.

As everybody knows, small, rural hospitals have a tough time. It'll get us pretty close to break even, where before we had some operating losses.

The big question is whether hospitals will demand a price reduction on their supply costs. They might ask for it, but it doesn't mean they will necessarily get it.

Baghdad is bustling with commerce. Universities and hospitals are open for business, ... A free press is flourishing, Iraqi banks have started taking applications for small business loans so Iraqi entrepreneurs can create jobs.

A large number of people will still go back to public hospitals and other public services to gain care when they discover the plans they have don't cover them.

This is going to continue for a long time. Schools and hospitals ... this is something we need to stay with for the long haul.

This first meeting truly set the tone for what we need to do. It is clear that if we all have the passion, and work together for the good of the patient, we can get this done and provide a great road map for physicians and hospitals to improve the quality and cost of patient care.

This actually, in terms of posting the staffing plans, is about not having the government tell hospitals and nurses how to staff their units. It's about providing the right care, not the same care.

This is a fairly new tool, and we are one of the first to have it. We act as a referral center for the region. ... We can advise other hospitals about this tool for more complicated procedures.

This improvement can be attributed to serious efforts that these institutions have made to minimize costs and improve their services. You could make a fair case that all of the Wayne County hospitals have been successful.

And I hate the way the hospitals have gone into (a) state of disrepair ... and our schools are in a state of chaos.

A lot of the hospitals were surprised to learn how many of their patients had died because they often don't follow up. They didn't know.

A lot of people take emergency care for granted. At a time when emergency- department visits are going through the roof, the number of emergency departments has declined because hospitals have found it's more economically attractive to close the emergency department than to keep it open and lose money.

There isn't a single state in the nation where at least some hospitals haven't abandoned VBAC altogether or cut way back. I don't see anything that's going to reverse this trend.

There is now no back-up to the supply that the hospitals have on hand. We have issued virtually all of the blood on our shelves, and urge healthy individuals to donate blood now.

This is where the demand is. We're near the hospitals and it really shocked me to learn that 7,000 cars pass by here every day.

This is the ideal relationship for us to disseminate reliable health care information to the largest number of medical professionals, hospitals and consumers. This venture initiates our long-term commitment to introduce world-class healthcare products and services to China.