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A hospital school, also known as home and hospital education (HHE), [1] [2] is a school operated in a hospital, generally a children's hospital which provides instruction to all primary and secondary grade levels. These schools help children regain academic progress during periods of hospitalization or rehabilitation.
Hospital Cornea Retrieval Programme HCTZ: hydrochlorothiazide: HCV: hepatitis C virus: HD: Hodgkin disease Hemodialysis Huntington's disease: HDL: high-density lipoprotein: HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol HDN: hemolytic disease of the newborn: HDS: hemodynamically stable (i.e., not bleeding) HDU: high dependency unit: HDV: hepatitis ...
Mobile army surgical hospital (US) MedPAC: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission: MD: Doctor of Medicine: MLA: Medical laboratory assistant: MT: Medical technologist: MLT: Medical laboratory technician MOH: Ministry of Health (various countries) MRCP: Membership of the Royal College of Physicians: MRCS: Membership of the Royal College of ...
The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, also known as an acute-care hospital. These facilities handle many kinds of disease and injury, and normally have an emergency department (sometimes known as "accident & emergency") or trauma center to deal with immediate and urgent threats to health.
When a child misses school, even for an excused absence like a sick day, it's harder for them to stay on track academically. So schools and health experts are trying to change the culture around ...
Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) is a course offered by the American Heart Association (AHA) for health care providers who take care of children and infants in the emergency room, critical care and intensive care units in the hospital, and out of hospital (emergency medical services (EMS)). The course teaches healthcare providers how to ...
The location chosen was immediately west and adjacent to the province's largest health care facility, the Victoria General Hospital, which was the teaching hospital associated with the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine; the IWK would continue the Halifax Children's Hospital's affiliation with the Faculty of Medicine's Department of ...
Here's how to navigate sick etiquette at this stage of the pandemic. Should you stay home from work or school if you're under the weather? Here's how to navigate sick etiquette at this stage of ...