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One of the monumental legacies in American healthcare is a little-known piece of legislation popularly referred to as “Hill-Burton.” Formally named the Hospital Survey and Construction Act, this bill was signed into law by President Truman on August 13, 1946. The Hill-Burton Act provided federal funding to states to build hospitals.
Explore the eight domains of medical practice management. Understand the forces of change affecting medical practice. Develop a perspective on the changes affecting medical practice. Understand the importance of the medical practitioner. Healthcare tends to be an accurate barometer of US society.
In order to understand the current healthcare delivery system and its issues, it is important to learn the history of the development of the U.S. healthcare system. There are four major sectors of our healthcare system that will be discussed in this chapter that have impacted our current system of operations: (1) the history of practicing
Between the years 1750 and 2000, healthcare in the United States evolved from a simple system of home remedies and itinerant doctors with little training to a complex, scientific, technological, and bureaucratic system often called the "medical industrial complex."
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It is important as a healthcare consumer to understand the history of the U.S. healthcare delivery system, how it operates today, who participates in the system, what legal and ethical issues arise as a result of the system, and what problems continue to plague the healthcare system. We are all consumers of health care. Yet, in
Hospitals: Origins and Growth from Early Times to 1900 Charles R. McConnell CHAPTER OBJECTIVES To overview the development of hospitals through the ages from ancient times up to the beginning of the 20th century. To address the transitioning of hospitals from housing for the dying to houses of healing.
