Sentence examples for distant hospitals from inspiring English sources

The Scottish Centre for Tele-Health has set up video kiosks offering medical consultations in remote areas to minimise the need for travel to distant hospitals.

When starving children are looked after in distant hospitals, mothers often camp outside, unable to tend their crops and healthier children back home.

Dr. Richard Falivena, the chairman of surgical services at the Brunswick Hospital Center, said "the stampede of community hospitals rushing to join" health-care alliances has forced some patients to drive to distant hospitals for care.

When Davis's loved ones fall ill, he snaps into action: former Raiders like Willie Brown are dispatched to deliver checks to cover medical expenses, airplanes are commandeered to whisk the sick to distant hospitals — anything to keep friends and former players alive.

Other key findings were that ambulances were frequently diverted to distant hospitals; in emergencies most children were taken to general hospitals, which often lacked pediatric expertise and equipment; and the American emergency-care system was ill-prepared for a major disaster be it a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, or a terrorist attack.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics injured athletes were digitally X-rayed and the images transmitted for diagnosis to radiologists in distant hospitals.

There had not been means to get her to the distant hospital.

There were close calls, such as the time that Alex went on a trip and ended up, unconscious, in some distant hospital.

In 1992 she suffered abdominal pain, sought treatment from Lori Pegram, a doctor at the H.M.O., who scheduled her for an ultrasound procedure eight days later at a distant hospital affiliated with the H.M.O.

Ms. López sought to cast the changes as a discriminatory act, aimed at disabled veterans in Manhattan who, she said, will have a more difficult time getting medical care if they are forced to travel to another, more distant hospital.

The ratings seemed designed to counter prosecution claims that Mr. Monserrate had endangered Ms. Giraldo by not calling 911 and instead driving her to a more distant hospital, where he might have been less recognizable.