Translation of "health care institution " (English → French) :

Health Care Institutions: Terminology and Definitions [ Canadian Hospital Terminology and Definitions ]

health care facility [ HCF | health care institution | health institution ]

Smoking Policies in Schools, Daycares, Health Care Institutions and Commercial Settings

training college for tutors in health care institutions

Health Insurance Institute for Sailors | House of the Sailor | Mariners’ Health Fund | Seaman’s Home | Seamen's Home

health professional | health care professional | health-care professional | health practitioner | health care practitioner | health-care practitioner

health care facility | healthcare facility | health care facilities | care facility | care facilities | health facility | health facilities

health care spending account | health care reimbursement account | health care expense account | health spending account | health spending plan | health services spending account | flexible spending account

Definition: Group foster care in which parenting responsibilities are largely taken over by some form of institution (such as residential nursery, orphanage, or children's home), or therapeutic care over a prolonged period in which the child is in a hospital, convalescent home or the like, without at least one parent living with the child.

Health care accounts for a large proportion of public spending, which means that this sector is vital for the implementation of quality and viability strategies, which must respect the principles laid down in the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines for 2001 ("promoting the accumulation of physical and human resources" and "improving the effectiveness of expenditure through institutional and structural reforms").

The Commission encourages Member States (including relevant national and regional authorities) to: · work towards better alignment and synergies of their funding instruments with EU funding initiatives; this includes their research and innovation programmes, in particular in connection with relevant Joint Programming Initiatives and AAL; · make effective use of Structural Funds, in line with the Partnership priorities, as appropriate, in particular with a view to: – enhancing the use, quality, interoperability of and access to ICT including e-health, and strengthening research, technological development and innovation; – promoting soc ...[+++]ial inclusion and combating poverty, including through investing in health and social infrastructure; – promoting measures to fight against discrimination of older people both in accessing the labour market and in the work place (e.g. innovative, accessible and age-friendly forms of work organisation, longer healthier working lives); – fostering investments to modernise national and regional health systems, and giving priority to a shift from institutional care to community-based care, while enhancing independent living. · consider including the Partnership priorities and objectives among their strategic priorities in order to make use of structural funds; · engage in the activities of the Partnership through the procurement of more innovative and efficient solutions.

For the purposes of this article, ‘non-hospital care’ shall mean health care that is not provided in a health care institution with beds in the Member State in which the person is insured. This care does not therefore require the hospitalisation of the patient or can be provided in a context other than a health care institution with beds as it does not involve highly specialised care or treatment that presents an obvious risk to the patient.

62. Calls for the creation and use of a point of single contact, on the basis of existing Community instruments, in accordance with the organisational peculiarities of each health care system, to guarantee access to objective and independent information for patients, health professionals, health care institutions and competent authorities; considers that health professionals can assist patients to find this information;