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CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere), nonprofit, nonsectarian federation of agencies devoted to channeling relief and self-help materials to needy people in foreign countries. Organized in the United States (1945) to help war-ravaged Europe, CARE soon expanded its program to include developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Famous for its "CARE packages" of food and other necessities, CARE in now also involved in population, health care, land management, and small economic activity. It is now an international organization with 10 member countries and headquarters in Brussels.

care

in (or into) care Social welfare made the legal responsibility of a local authority by order of a court

care, custody, and control

Describes a standard exclusion in liability insurance policies. Under this exclusion, the liability insurance does not apply to damage to property in the care or custody of the insured, or to damage to property over which the insured is for any purpose exercising physical control.

CARE

agency devoted to channeling relief to needy people abroad. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 456]

See : Aid, Organizational

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TNA Award for Nursing Excellence in Direct Care Paula Reed, MS, RN, of Johnson City, received the TNA Award for Nursing Excellence in Direct Care.

2010 TNA and TNF Achievement Awards by Tennessee Nurse

The "Medical Loss Ratio" provisions issued today require health insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers' premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality: "Today, we take a major step forward to ensure consumers more value for their health care dollars, increasing transparency and requiring health insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers' premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality.

Pelosi: 'Today, We Take a Major Step Forward to Ensure Consumers More ... by PR Newswire

Direct care staff is required by law and is paid for an entire shift.

Letters to the editor by Long-Term Living

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

Dirae

Dirce

Dire Dawa