Public health first went on record in 1601, when the Elizabethan Poor Law was written. This law, which was based on Great Britain’s health care model, and “guaranteed medical care for the poor, blind, and “lame” individuals, even those without family” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008, p. 24). As the United Stated grew so did public health. Some of America’s milestones in public health include: the establishment of the American Public Health Association in 1872, the Public health nursing program was instituted at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York in In 1910, and finally the Public Health Nursing textbook was written by Mary S. Gardner in 1919 (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). The history of public health in Ohio, yield incomplete results.
Hill-Burton Free and Reduced-Cost Health Care In 1946, Congress passed a law that gave hospitals, nursing homes and other health facilities grants and loans for construction and modernization. In return, they agreed to provide a reasonable volume of services to persons unable to pay and to make their services available to all persons residing in the facility’s area. The program stopped providing funds in 1997, but about 170 health care facilities nationwide are still obligated to provide free or reduced-cost care. Since 1980, more than $6 billion in uncompensated services have been provided to eligible patients through Hill-Burton. -US Dept.
To: Dr. Simon Friedman, New Mexico’s Chief Medical Officer From: Laura Smith Date: November 16, 2011 Re: Case Analysis: The New Mexico Meningococcal Outbreak Dear Dr. Friedman, As we can see, numerous health organizations in New Mexico have been a part of recent Meningococcal outbreak. Included are the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH), Emergency Medical Services (EMS), the Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI), University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH), Indian Health Service (IHS), and the San Juan Regional Medical Center (SJRMC). Background Information University Hospital is a 300-bed acute care hospital in Albuquerque affiliated with University of New Mexico School of Medicine. It has the largest concentration of infectious disease specialists in the state was affiliated with the University Hospital and the School of Medicine.
Forty patients transferred from Middletown brought the total number of patients up to fifty one, with space enough to accommodate 104. A tuberculosis sanatorium established in 1912 added another administrative building and two shacks for patients. The insane asylum and tuberculosis hospital would quickly fill to capacity, eventually join as one institution, and be forced to expand their facilities throughout the 20th Century. The site eventually encompassed several buildings spread out over 470 acres, many connected via underground tunnels. The first documented tragedy to occur at the asylum was the suicide of a patient.
ProCon.org. (2010, November 1). Right to Health Care ProCon.org. Healthcare.ProCon.org. Retrieved from http://healthcare.procon.org/ Sanders, B., 2010, November 8.
Some even went as far as physically placing a blow on the head to render unconsciousness (“History of Anesthesia” 2010). Different anesthetic practices were in use in his time when Crawford Long revived the field of surgical anesthesia by using diethyl ether as an anesthetic (“History of Anesthesia” 2010). Crawford William Long was an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic (en.wikiprdia.org). Crawford Long was born in Danielsville, GA, on March 1, 1815 (“BookRags Biography of Crawford Williamson Long”). At the age of fourteen he attended Franklin College in Athens graduating in 1835 with his Masters of Arts degree (“BookRags Biography of Crawford Williamson Long”, Hani
The general acceptance of a utility commission by the public came after a telephone company scandal and soaring utility bills of the 1970’s. Finally in 1975, just two years after Wilson opened the idea of a commission to the general public, the Texas legislature formed what is still known today as the Public Utility Commission of Texas or PUC for short. This commission was comprised of three commissioners that each received a salary of $40,500 per year for the first year and $41,300 for the following year, about the same that other commissioners in Texas received. In the following months, the three commissioners got office space, obtained supplies, hired employees, and most importantly, registered utility companies from across Texas. During this period, they also wrote the first set of rules and regulations that would regulate utility companies across the state.
Since 2007, Direct Relief has provided partner health facilities with no-cost medicines and medical supplies to improve their ability to treat uninsured patients. This program includes 50 health care facilities in hurricane-prone regions of the U.S. and 10 facilities in throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Select partner health facilities receive preparedness packs at the start of hurricane season on June 1st. Pre-positioning the packs at clinics and hospitals before a hurricane strikes eliminates delivery delays and equips medical professionals with the materials to treat injured patients on-site. The contents of the pack were originally determined as part of Direct Relief’s participation on the Texas Blue Ribbon Commission on Emergency Preparedness and Response following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Great Britain also began their healthcare program shortly after Germany. Although the form of universal health care has changed with the advances of technology, it is provided in some way or another by every nation in the world except the United States. Universal health care has been recognized as a basic human right and was defined as such in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document was drafted shortly after World War II and voted on by the United Nations. The United States chose not to ratify the social and economic sections of the declaration that covered health care.
(2006). Gaps in health insurance: an all-American problem. The Commonwealth Fund. Retrieved November 10, 2010, from http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=367876#areaCitation Harris, J.R., Cross, J., Hannon, P.A., Mahoney, E., Ross-Viles, S., & Kuniyuki, A. (2008).