Reducing clinical staff numbers appears to reduce the ED's capacity to provide timely assessments and care and to function as hospital gatekeepers.
About 100 of 2,200 post-graduate, medical education training programs consider themselves "General Medicine" (sôgôshinryô) programs [ 17], though many of these function as hospital triage units, and do not have a true mission of training primary care doctors.
He said he had met a 12-year-old boy who asked him, "Will this democracy you speak of give me a job?" In one way or another, that is the view of many Iraqis, impatient of political process but desperate to the point of rebellion for work, for electricity, for schools and hospitals that function as efficiently as they did under Mr. Hussein -- and for law and order.
In some rural locations, hospital trains now function as mobile hospitals, traveling by rail from one location to the next, then parking on a siding to provide hospital services to the local population.
With its extensive experience in competently operating hospitals -- including those run by UC San Diego and UC Irvine, which function as public hospitals for San Diego and Orange counties -- the UC system should be able to provide the kind of quality care that King-Harbor patients deserve.
Workforces at large tertiary care hospitals functioning as reference hospitals for persons with influenza may be substantially affected during pandemics, particularly in regard to absenteeism and associated costs.
Initially, members agreed that if one of them became seriously ill, he or she would have to go elsewhere for care, because Cheesecake wasn't designed to function as a hospital or hospice.
These two military hospitals dispatched medical rescue teams to Ludian county no more than two hours after the earthquake occurred, which functioned as temporary hospitals and received the injured in the stricken areas.
Our network is mostly composed of medium and large facilities, many of them functioning as referral hospitals in their geographical areas.
