Author: Robert J. GrischyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Hill-Burton Act
Author: Robert J. GrischyHill-Burton Hospital Survey and Construction Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
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Category : Health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Hospital Survey and Construction Act (Hill-Burton) Act Amendments
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Considers legislation to provide greater financial assistance to states for construction of hospitals; to establish a program of national health insurance; and to provide aid for health personnel training.
The Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services Program
Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946 (P.L. 79-725), commonly known as the Hill-Burton Act, was enacted to provide federal financial assistance for the planning, construction, and improvement of health care facilities through grants, loans, and guaranteed loans under Title VI and later Title XVI of the Public Health Service Act. Since 1946, the Hill-Burton program has provided assistance to more than 6,900 hospitals and other health care facilities in more than 4,000 communities. The original legislation stipulated that, in return for assistance, facilities were required to provide free care for 20 years to eligible persons unable to pay for health care services. Although there has not been any Title VI funding authority for the program since FY1974, many facilities that received Hill-Burton funds continue to have an obligation to provide a certain level of uncompensated care. Facilities funded under Title XVI must provide uncompensated care in perpetuity. This report provides information on the act, the obligations and eligibility requirements for free care, and sources for further information. It will be updated annually.
The Power to Heal
Author: David Barton SmithPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826521088
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated. These powerful private institutions, which had for a half century selectively served people on the basis of race and wealth, began equally caring for all on the basis of need. The book draws the reader into the struggles of the unsung heroes of the transformation, black medical leaders whose stubborn courage helped shape the larger civil rights movement. They demanded an end to federal subsidization of discrimination in the form of Medicare payments to hospitals that embraced the "separate but equal" creed that shaped American life during the Jim Crow era. Faced with this pressure, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations tried to play a cautious chess game, but that game led to perhaps the biggest gamble in the history of domestic policy. Leaders secretly recruited volunteer federal employees to serve as inspectors, and an invisible army of hospital workers and civil rights activists to work as agents, making it impossible for hospitals to get Medicare dollars with mere paper compliance. These triumphs did not come without casualties, yet the story offers lessons and hope for realizing this transformational dream.
Equal Opportunity in Hospitals and Health Facilities
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Implementation of Hill-Burton Amendments, 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
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Category : Health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sultz & Young's Health Care USA
Author: Kristina M. YoungPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 1284114678
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Health Care USA, Ninth Edition offers students of health administration, public health, medicine, and related fields a wide-ranging overview of America’s health care system. Combining historical perspective with analysis of current trends, this expanded edition charts the evolution of modern American health care, providing a complete examination of its organization and delivery while offering critical insight into the issues that the U.S. health system faces today.
Extension and Revision of Hill-Burton Hospital Construction Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublisher:
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Category : Hospital buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Health Care for Some
Author: Beatrix HoffmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226348032
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The 2010 Affordable Care Act is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American type of rationing. Unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world.