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Doctors Hospital of Laredo is a for-profit hospital owned and operated by Universal Health Services. There are 164 physicians on the medical staff with the hospital, 80 of whom are active staff. There are 164 physicians on the medical staff with the hospital, 80 of whom are active staff.
Visiting nurses of Chicago (1906) A visiting nurse association (VNA), also known as a visiting nurse agency or home healthcare agency or association, is any of various American organizations that provide home healthcare and hospice services through a network of nurses, therapists, social workers, and other healthcare associates for patients who are housebound, recovering from an illness or ...
1893 – Women physicians join TMA as members. [4] 1918 – Woman's Auxiliary to TMA established. This organization was renamed the Texas Medical Association Alliance (TMAA) in 1992. TMAA is a volunteer organization made up of physicians and physicians' spouses involved in health-related community service, legislation and political action.
La Cruz Blanca Neutral was a volunteer infirmary and relief service founded by Elena Arizmendi Mejia in 1911. [1] [2] [3] She was enrolled at the School of Nursing of the Santa Rosa Hospital (now the School of Nursing at the University of the Incarnate Word) in San Antonio, Texas when the war broke out.
The system comprises almost 350 services and facilities, including more than 60 hospitals and long-term care facilities, 175 clinics and outpatient centers and dozens of other health ministries and ventures. Its corporate headquarters are in Irving, Texas. [6] It employs approximately 30,000 people and has more than 9,500 physicians.
According to the Texas Nurses Association, "No one ever imagined that a nurse would be criminally prosecuted for reporting a patient care concern to a licensing agency." [1] After the Mitchell case, protection from prosecution was incorporated into Texas whistleblower laws. The TMB stopped investigating anonymous complaints about physicians in ...
Visiting Nurse Service office. Founded in 1893 by nursing pioneer Lillian D. Wald and Mary M. Brewster, VNS Health is one of the largest not-for-profit home- and community-based health care organizations in the United States, serving the five boroughs of New York City; Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties; and parts of upstate New York.
She founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City and The Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurse Service, which eventually became the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. [19] Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965) 1982: founder of the Frontier Nursing Service [20] Mary E. P. Davis (1840-1924) 1982: co-founder/manager of The American Journal of ...