The decision to close the care homes is subject to a five day call-in period to allow city council members to scrutinise the decision.
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The city council said it needed to close care homes because more elderly people were choosing to remain at home or live in supported housing instead of residential care homes.
But as Labour attempted to focus on its plans for the NHS, the hospital Cherie Blair was due to visit had to close its paediatric intensive care unit to new admissions because of staff shortages.
On Thursday, the Western trust said that its intention was to close four NHS residential care homes and defended its actions, saying it had tried to be honest with people during its discussions.
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Other community hospitals at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Flint and Prestatyn are also due to close, and plans to move specialist intensive care for babies to England have proved controversial.
Caner patients need the appropriate level of care close to where they live.
In January, the authority voted to close five adult care homes.
Stories are beginning to appear about women building networks of close friends to share household and home care costs, to advocate for one another, and to provide the emotional support that might otherwise come from a spouse or child.
Experts believed that tough, top-down controls would dispense with inefficiencies: Insurance companies would relentlessly cut back payments for hundreds of medical procedures, which would force hospitals, clinics and physicians to get their acts together, thereby boosting productivity and cutting costs. (Managed care's methods are close cousins to what you see in nationalized health care systems.) Because of these anticipated efficiencies, experts figured we would need fewer doctors.
In north Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board's decision to close four community hospitals and transfer care for seriously ill babies to England has prompted local opposition.
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Close to 70% used the information to select a health care provider.
Norman Collier died at a residential care home close to his home city of Hull after being ill with Parkinson's disease for a number of years.
Over the last two days, not even two days, about 44 hours now, they've taken care of close to 100 patients, everything ranging from heat stroke to bullet wounds to the head.
The Welsh government said it had made it clear that it was the responsibility of health boards to "secure high quality, safe care for their residents as close to a patient's home as possible, while taking into account the needs of the community as a whole and making best use of their resources".
In Bedminster a group of residents want to turn the site of a care home which is about to close into a park.
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This includes plans to close four community hospitals and the transfer of neonatal intensive care across the border to England.
There are, I am told, around 30 to 35 care homes that Southern Cross would have wanted to close in any circumstances either because they are too small, older and not quite fit for purpose or because they are in areas where the elderly population is shrinking.
He was rushed to a hospital, where he was kept in intensive care for two days, having been close to death from kidney failure, Iredale said.
Hartlepool hospital's intensive care unit is to close with services moving to North Tees Hospital in Stockton.
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Campaigners fighting to save 11 care homes in Kent may challenge in court the decision to close most of them.
Close to half of the patients had used all of their savings on health care, 49 percent had to borrow money to afford prescriptions, 30 percent did not even fill medications, and 20 percent decided to take less medications than their doctor advised.
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"The Affordable Care Act moves us very close to achieving health coverage for everyone, " said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a health advocacy group.
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