Sentence examples for continuum plan from inspiring English sources

The governor said that the Continuum plan had not specifically been discussed at the meeting, but that "when you have a hospital teetering on the verge of insolvency, there isn't any relief you won't consider".

The Continuum plan created an immediate uproar at St . Vincents and among local politicians, who said the neighborhood could not be without an emergency room or inpatient services and who accused Continuum of being more interested in shutting down competition and improving its own finances than in saving neighborhood health care.

But Continuum's plan to close down the hospital's inpatient beds and emergency room, turning it into an outpatient operation, generated immediate opposition from the neighborhood.

Mr. Brezenoff suggested in his letter that the state had been critical of Continuum's plan to eliminate the hospital's inpatient beds and close its emergency room.

At the Brooklyn Secondary School for Collaborative Studies in Carroll Gardens, the hospital runs a small health center with a social worker and a nurse practitioner — one of four that would close under Continuum's plan.

Besides Continuum's plan, there are alternatives for the Health Department to consider: The hospital's staff has proposed taking it over and maintaining all its operations, and others have suggested a partnership with another local hospital.

Part of Continuum's plan to shrink the hospital was rejected last week when the State Department of Health denied it permission to shut down the maternity and pediatric services, ruling that the other local hospitals cannot make up for the loss.

Continuum Health Partners, a consortium of hospitals in Brooklyn and Manhattan, had offered to take over its outpatient facilities, but then withdrew that offer, in part because of community opposition to Continuum's plan to shut down most emergency room functions and to send 911 ambulance calls to other hospitals.

Postnatal hospital care in many Western countries is rarely viewed or planned as part of a continuum of planned, effective maternity care for individual women.

Proposals from any part of the research continuum — from planning grants to data collection and analysis — are welcome.

The State Health Department denied Continuum's 2008 plan to close maternity and pediatric operations, leading to the search for a partner.