More than one-third of residents will make an emergency visit to the hospital and more than one in four will be admitted to a hospital during the course of a year.
And of course, hospital care is far more expensive that home health care.
In the hospital, in the course of being treated for the acute illness, people are sleep deprived, malnourished, deconditioned, disrupted in their routines, have their circadian rhythms jarred, medicated with drugs that affect judgment and function, and so on.
"This vaccine will mean less pressure both on distressed parents who have to care for their children and of course the GPs and hospital services who are treating them, " he said.
Down the hall lay a Putter and a Shooter, boys who clung to their jaunty monikers as though they were one day going to walk out of the hospital and back onto the golf course or the basketball court where they had earned those nicknames.
So yes of course there's a problem with hospital-acquired infection but I think there are good plans on hand to deal with that.
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There will be an international school (already half-built), a hospital, museums, a convention center, a golf course overseen by Jack Nicklaus, a giant mall designed by Daniel Libeskind and a 65-story office tower.
But of course all that is happening at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, isn't it?
Of course, for journalistic flourish she also deliberately conflated hospital reimbursement with physician pay (only for US doctors, interestingly).
Of course, Penn didn't know of the hospital's troubles when he wrote the song, but it's only natural that his protagonist would find disappointment there, too.
This has huge implications for the health-care industry...and in making that prediction accurately, a hospital can adjust its resources, or even recommend a different course of treatment.
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Dr. CHRIS LANSEN (Physician, Doctors Without Borders Hospital, Dubea, Democratic Republic of Congo): Of course, in a camp with almost 9, 000 people and poor sanitation, we're very worried about that, because that could then spread out into an epidemic.
Racing pundit John McCririck has been taken to hospital after falling ill at the Cheltenham Festival, officials at the course have said.
And, of course, last week the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital failings recommended a duty of candour to get staff to be open about mistakes, while with-holding information from regulators should become a criminal offence.
But hospital authorities told the court that Ms Shanbaug "accepts food in normal course and responds by facial expressions" and responds to "commands intermittently by making sounds".
His health, which has been poor since he was rushed to hospital for several weeks in Paris at the end of 2005, has made this course look even less wise.
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The infection can be treated with a course of antibiotics to prevent the infection spreading further but young infants may need hospital care due to the risk of severe complications.
While Zurich is home to more than 50 museums and 100 art galleries, take a crash course in the weirder side of the city at the Moulage Museum, part of University Hospital Zurich.
Of course, the most obvious first benefit is that patients, who usually have few choices when in the hospital, can actually make some decisions about what they eat and when.
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Over the course of 11 years, 169 people in the study died from heart disease and 1, 066 needed hospital treatment - and they were more likely to have been meat and fish eaters than vegetarians.
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