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Beneficence is a concept in research ethics that states that researchers should have the welfare of the research participant as a goal of any clinical trial or other research study. The antonym of this term, maleficence , describes a practice that opposes the welfare of any research participant.
Piedmont Athens Regional (formerly known as Athens Regional Medical Center or ARMC) is a healthcare system located in Athens, Georgia, that consists of an acute care hospital with 350-plus beds, four urgent care centers, a network of physicians and specialists, and a home health agency. The healthcare system serves a 17-county area, and is one ...
Beneficence can come into conflict with non-maleficence when healthcare professionals are deciding between a “first, do no harm” approach vs. a “first, do good” approach, such as when deciding whether or not to operate when the balance between the risk and benefit of the operation is not known and must be estimated.
Garner, the CEO for the Athens Neighborhood Health Center on McKinley Drive in east Athens, is overseeing the final touches to an expansion of the medical facility that has seen it nearly double ...
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center has been named a 2024 High Performing hospital for Maternity Care (Uncomplicated Pregnancy) by the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals for Maternity ...
From 1921 to 1991, the Georgian health system was part of the Soviet system.Till 1995 health care system in Georgia was based on Soviet Semashko model. The first dramatic change was implemented in 1995, when the budget transfers were complemented with additional sources of the financing: the mandatory health insurance contributions (employer and the employee mandatory contribution - 3% and 1% ...
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
The company was founded by Jonathan Bush and Todd Park in 1997 as Athena Women's Health, a women's health and birthing center in San Diego, California. [5]At the birthing center, only 10% of babies were delivered by C-section, one-third of the national average, and 90% of mothers could breastfeed their newborns, beating the national average of 67%.