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  2. Hill–Burton Act - Wikipedia

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    “Relatively little hospital construction took place during the Great Depression and World War II, so, by the end of the war, there was a severe shortage of hospital beds in the United States. The Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946, commonly referred to as the Hill-Burton Act, provided federal grants to states for the construction of ...

  3. Hospital incident command system (US) - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the hospital incident command system (HICS) is an incident command system (ICS) designed for hospitals and intended for use in both emergency and non-emergency situations. It provides hospitals of all sizes with tools needed to advance their emergency preparedness and response capability—both individually and as members ...

  4. Roemer's law - Wikipedia

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    In health policy, Roemer's law may be expressed as "in an insured population, a hospital bed built is a bed filled." [1]The rule was deduced by the American health services researcher Milton Roemer, working at the UCLA School of Public Health.

  5. National Disaster Medical System - Wikipedia

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    The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) is a federally coordinated disaster medical system and partnership of the United States Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Homeland Security (DHS), Defense (DOD), and Veterans Affairs (VA).

  6. Hospital bed - Wikipedia

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    A modern hospital bed at public hospital at Hong Kong Hospital beds per 1000 people 2013 [1] A hospital bed or hospital cot is a bed specially designed for hospitalized patients or others in need of some form of health care. These beds have special features both for the comfort and well-being of the patient and for the convenience of health ...

  7. Certificate of need - Wikipedia

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    The 42-bed hospital has been in the works since 2020, with a tentative opening in 2026, if not for the existing providers' objection to the new facility's construction. In 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that states repeal their CON laws because they are a significant reason for increasing medical costs, and they ...

  8. Lists of hospitals - Wikipedia

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    List of countries by hospital beds; List of largest hospital campuses, a list of large hospitals ranked by bed capacity and staffing within a single campus; List of largest hospital networks, a list of large hospitals ranked by bed capacity and staffing within a hospital network; List of tallest hospitals

  9. R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center - Wikipedia

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    Adjacent to the TRU is a vast array of equipment and facilities that are immediately available to the patient in extremis. Shock Trauma has nine dedicated operating suites, its own unique trauma post-anesthesia care unit, in addition to two dedicated multislice CT scanners, an angiography suite, and digital plain film capability.