One example is what is known as the "340B program," which was intended to ensure that hospitals and other facilities that serve low-income populations receive deep discounts on drug prices, but is being used by a broad range of facilities that don't necessarily pass those savings on to patients.
In contrast to preterm infant births, the births of term and late preterm infants are scattered over a broad range of facilities, many of which care for relatively few infants each year with NE.
Since 1990, Nepal has developed, piloted and gradually scaled-up a broad range of facility- and community-based programs to address maternal, neonatal and child health; many of these have since been integrated with regular public health programs.
Supporting the hiring and retention of skilled health workers at the facility (through provision of adequate housing and regular payment of salaries) and reviewing policies to expand the scope of services performed by non-physician clinicians would help improve 24 hour availability of EmOC [ 13, 33] and make a broader range of FP methods available at health facilities.
While the water quality produced from centralized MBRs has been widely reported, there is no study in the literature addressing the effluent quality from a broad range of satellite facilities.
Deficits in the quality of CS patient records across a broad range of health facilities in low-resource settings in four sub-Saharan Africa countries and Bangladesh indicate an urgent need to improve record keeping.
Maximum variation sampling techniques were used to ensure that the broad range of treatment facilities available in each province were represented (residential and outpatient, for-profit and non-profit services).
The reported incidence rates emphasize the need to perform larger observational studies with standardized methodologies for case ascertainment, laboratory analyses and clinical follow up to determine IAP and antibiotic use across a broad range of healthcare facilities, urban and rural, in different regions and countries.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday that the Federal Reserve may need to extend liquidity facilities to a broader range of financial firms, and Vice Chairman Donald Kohn of the Fed said the central bank is considering a range of options to deal with losses on home equity loans, including the creation of a special lending channel, according to TradeTheNews.com.
