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On November 6, 2011, ACS CAN premiered its second-ever national television ad on Meet the Press to ask Congress to remember the lives lost to cancer and the 12 million cancer survivors living in America at the time. ACS CAN produced the ad to push to Congress to make cancer a national priority when addressing the country’s budget deficit.
The ACS was founded in 1913 as an outgrowth of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America that had existed since 1910 as an outgrowth of the journal Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, an initiative of ACS Founder Dr. Franklin H. Martin.
The same year, she became secretary and the first woman officer of the American College of Surgeons. From 1999 to 2000, she served as the first woman president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association. [1] [3] [4] One major area of research interest from 1972 to 2004 was esophageal replacement in children and infants. [2]
Congress has tried for years to improve access to care and curtail costs, which are far higher in the US than in its peers even though it ranks last on key health measures. Lawmakers have held ...
To that end, Congress passed Public Law 99-166 in December 1985 which mandated the VHA to report their outcomes in comparison to national averages and the information must be risk-adjusted to account for the severity of illness of the VHA surgical patient population. In 1991 the National VA Surgical Risk Study (NVASRS) began in 44 Veteran's ...
Collaboration between numerous professional organizations served as the driving force behind the creation of the NAPRC and its standards. [8] To create the new standards and address the disparities between treatment in Europe and the U.S., the OSTRiCh (Optimizing Surgical Treatment of Rectal Cancer) Consortium was created by the American College of Surgeons and its Commission on Cancer (CoC ...
This wisdom about volunteering was coupled with Sept. 11, designated as “Patriot Day” by Congress in 2001, when on April 21, 2009, Congress legislated that the day be celebrated as a National ...
The bill is a revised version of an earlier measure, the proposed America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (HR 3200 [18] [19]). The revisions included refinements designed to meet the goals outlined in the President's address to a joint session of Congress in September, 2009 concerning health care reform.