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The voluntary hospital movement began in the early 18th century, with hospitals being founded in London by the 1710s and 20s, including Westminster Hospital (1719) promoted by the private bank C. Hoare & Co and Guy's Hospital (1724) funded from the bequest of the wealthy merchant, Thomas Guy. Other hospitals sprang up in London and other ...
[14] [15] [16] Studies from the late 1980s indicated that one-third to one-half of homeless people had severe psychiatric disorders, often co-occurring with substance abuse. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] A process of indirect cost-shifting may have led to a form of "re-institutionalization" through the increased use of jail detention for those with mental ...
First Lady Hillary Clinton at her presentation on health care in September 1993. According to an address to Congress by then-President Bill Clinton on September 22, 1993, the proposed bill would provide a "health care security card" to every citizen that would irrevocably entitle them to medical treatment and preventative services, including for pre-existing conditions. [2]
As early as the 1912 presidential election, former president Theodore Roosevelt vaguely called for the creation of a national health service in the 15th plank of his Progressive Party platform. [9] However, neither Roosevelt nor his opponents discussed health care plans in detail, and Roosevelt lost the election to Woodrow Wilson . [ 10 ]
In the early 1990s, Mayo Clinic formed a system of clinics and hospitals in response to the growth of managed care. [5] The organization was initially called Mayo Health System when it was founded in 1992. The first groups to join were the Decorah Clinic in Decorah, Iowa, followed by Wisconsin-based Midelfort Clinic and Luther Hospital. Joining ...
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was legislation signed by American President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the Democratically controlled House of ...
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
Northern Women in the Civil War Hospital Service." Prospects 20 (1995): 39-56. Schultz, Jane E. "The Inhospitable Hospital: Gender and Professionalism in Civil War Medicine," Signs (1992) 17#2 pp. 363–392 online; Schultz, Jane E. Women at the front: Hospital workers in Civil War America (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2005) online.