* The Hospital Financing Law ( 1972 ), which secured the supply of hospitals and reduced the cost of hospital care, “ defined the financing of hospital investment as a public responsibility, single states to issue plans for hospital development, and the federal government to bear the cost of hospital investment covered in the plans, rates for hospital care thus based on running costs alone, hospitals to ensure that public subsidies together with insurance fund payments for patients cover total costs ”.

Consumers Union is a sponsor of the Stop Hospital Infections campaign, whose goal is to aid consumers in finding the best quality of health care by promoting the public disclosure of hospital-acquired infection rates.

He has run local campaigns on business rates, St Bartholomew's Hospital, assisting the creative industries, the control of rickshaws in the West End, social housing rent rises, the independence of the City of London Police and in July 2011 successfully argued in Parliament for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's continuing control of the Royal Parks.

In 1718 he was appointed an assistant surgeon at St Thomas ' Hospital in London, becoming full surgeon in 1720 where his specialisation of the removal of bladder stones resulted in the increase in survival rates.

Cure4Kids is a web-based education project of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital with the mission of helping health professionals in countries with limited resources improve the survival rates of children with catastrophic illnesses, including pediatric cancer, sickle cell disease, and HIV / AIDS.

Since the decision of Christ's Hospital to only accept legitimate orphans in 1676 the only other place to care for them was the parish poorhouse, here they faced little or no child care provision and extremely high mortality rates.

Madeo, M. and Barlow, G. ( 2008 ) Reducing blood-culture contamination rates by the use of a 2 % chlorhexadine solution applicator in acute admission units Journal of Hospital Infection 69, 207-309

According to Dr Foster's Hospital Guide ( published on 17 November 2008 ) Northwick Park's mortality rates are among the best in the United Kingdom and The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, which manages the hospital, is one of the ' most improved ' NHS trusts.

Indeed, the connection between surgical hygiene, infection, and maternal mortality rates at Vienna General Hospital was only made in 1847 by Vienna physician Dr Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis after a close colleague of his died.

Their corporate website, www. tsh. to, publishes a number of patient safety indicators including rates of hospital-acquired infections such as C. difficile, MRSA and VRE, as well as their Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio ( HSMR ), hand hygiene compliance and a corporate balanced scorecard.

Three rates were created therein — Hospital Apprentice, Hospital Apprentice First Class ( a petty officer third class ), and Hospital Steward, which was a chief petty officer.

Other rates assigned to the PSU's include Boatswains Mate ( BM ), Machinery Technician ( MK ), Gunners Mate ( GM ), Yeoman ( YN ), Storekeeper ( SK ), and Corpsman ( HS ).

Third, sedimentation rates in the Himalaya are extremely high, leading to rapid loss of storage capacity as sediments accumulate behind dams.

Third, temperatures must be lower than those in stars ( elements are stripped of electrons: a plasma state ) but higher than in the interstellar medium ( reaction rates are too low ).

By the end of the 1960s, the idea of the Third World came to represent countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America that were considered underdeveloped by the West based on a variety of characteristics ( low economic development, low life expectancy, high rates of poverty and disease, etc .).

Over the last few decades, global population growth has largely been focused in Third World countries ( which often have higher birth rates than Developed countries ).

He enlisted as a mess attendant and then became a Petty Officer Third Class in the rate of Steward, one of the few rates open to African Americans at that time.

The population of Pine Ridge suffer health conditions commonly found in Third World countries, including high mortality rates, depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, malnutrition and diabetes, among others.

Third class bulk mail postage rates were established in 1928.

While these rates are higher than the general U. S. population, they are lower than those of other non-brat Third Culture Kids ( 84 – 90 % college degree and 40 % graduate degree ).

The Third Circuit court ruled in 2009 that an allocation agreement in fact did exist, and that the City of Austin must adjust its tax rates so that the ad valorem taxes were equivalent such that the taxes paid by residents in the M. U. D.

Class had a big effect on mortality rates as the upper classes had a lower rate of premature death early in the 19th century than poorer classes did.

To date, Natural Bridges has the only night sky monitored by the NPS Night Sky Team that rates a Class 2 on the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale, giving it the darkest sky ever assessed.

For the Class of 2014, Willamette had much lower acceptance rates than in previous years, and accepted 38 % of the 8, 336 applicants.

The Canada Land Inventory for Agriculture rates the lands as predominately Class Six and Seven with primary restrictions of adverse topography, erosion damage and low natural fertility.

The Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist insignia is not required for continued advancement in the Navy, however for those in aviation rates the insignia must be obtained by three years as a Petty Officer Second Class.

* Planned Amortization Class ( PAC ) bonds have a principal payment rate determined by two different prepayment rates, which together form a band ( also called a collar ).

In retrospect, the Lincoln Journal Star's analysis of the 2006 gubernatorial race attributed Heineman's win to his opposition to Class I rural school reorganization and the granting of resident college tuition rates to the children of illegal immigrants, helping him win over rural voters.

After facing a refusal of the big railroads ( who had their own coal lands ) to negotiate equitable rates to interchange and forward the coal for shipping, the owners and their investors expanded their scheme and built a U. S. Class I railroad which extended from some of the most rugged terrain of West Virginia over to reach port at Hampton Roads near Norfolk, Virginia.

On July 15, 1965, the Junior College Act became effective ; and on August 1 the school boards of districts operating junior colleges with separate educational and building rates became the boards of the newly constituted Class II districts.

Therefore, Class D quality cigarettes enjoy the highest production rates in China, while Class C quality cigarettes bring in the largest gross profit.

Such rates cannot be sustained, but despite reaching 26. 4 % in 2005 ( second highest GDP growth in the world in 2005 only to Equatorial Guinea ), and 2006 over 34. 6 % ( world highest ), in 2008 dropped to 10. 8 %, and dropped further to 9. 3 % in 2009.

In a large clinical study, one of the agents in the ACE inhibitor class, ramipril ( Altace ), demonstrated an ability to reduce the mortality rates of patients who suffered a myocardial infarction, and to slow the subsequent development of heart failure.

Under the terms of the Bank of England Act 1998 ( which came into force on 1 June 1998 ), the bank's Monetary Policy Committee was given sole responsibility for setting interest rates to meet the Government's stated Retail Prices Index ( RPI ) inflation target of 2. 5 %.

For bipolar I, the ( probandwise ) concordance rates in modern studies have been consistently put at around 40 % in monozygotic twins ( same genes ), compared to 0 to 10 % in dizygotic twins.

Thus, according to the Bank of England's Boxall and Gallagher ( 1997 ), "... there was virtually no difference between banks and building society ' listed ' interest rates for home finance mortgage lending between 1984 and 1997.

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

Thanks to both the increased reliability as well as the dramatically increased speed of the switching elements ( which were almost exclusively transistors by this time ), CPU clock rates in the tens of megahertz were obtained during this period.

The primary function of a central bank is to manage the nation's money supply ( monetary policy ), through active duties such as managing interest rates, setting the reserve requirement, and acting as a lender of last resort to the banking sector during times of bank insolvency or financial crisis.

Robert Mundell's " impossible trinity " is the most famous formulation of these limited powers, and postulates that it is impossible to target monetary policy ( broadly, interest rates ), the exchange rate ( through a fixed rate ) and maintain free capital movement.

Bradycardia in an adult is any heart rate less than 60 beats per minute ( bpm ), although symptoms usually manifest only for heart rates less than 50.

The fatality and serious injury rates per hour of travel are just over double for cycling than for walking ( owing to the reduced travel time ), in the UK.

It should be noted that calculated fatality rates based on distance for bicycling ( as well as for walking ) can have an exceptionally large margin of error, since there are generally no annual registrations or odometers required for bicycles ( as there are with motor vehicles ), and this means the distance traveled must be estimated.

At low refresh rates ( below 50 Hz ), the periodic scanning of the display may produce an irritating flicker that some people perceive more easily than others, especially when viewed with peripheral vision.

Then deforestation rates accelerate ( HFHD, high forest cover – high deforestation rate ), and forest cover is reduced ( LFHD.

FT depicts a broad trend, and an extrapolation of historical rates therefore tends to underestimate future BAU deforestation for counties at the early stages in the transition ( HFLD ), while it tends to overestimate BAU deforestation for countries at the later stages ( LFHD and LFLD ).

Constraining database access operation execution typically means reduced performance ( rates of execution ), and thus concurrency control mechanisms are typically designed to provide the best performance possible under the constraints.

Constraining database access operation execution typically means reduced performance ( rates of execution ), and thus concurrency control mechanisms are typically designed to provide the best performance possible under the constraints.

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution ( EDGE ) ( also known as Enhanced GPRS ( EGPRS ), or IMT Single Carrier ( IMT-SC ), or Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution ) is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM.

In most camps ( excepting PoW camps for the non-Soviet soldiers and certain labor camps ), the high death rates resulted from execution, starvation, disease, exhaustion, and physical brutality.