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It was founded in 1908 by Dr. Charles Harper Richardson, who saw the need for a surgical hospital in the community. This was the 2nd hospital in Pittsfield at the time. [1] Hillcrest moved to its current location in 1951. In 1996 Hillcrest Hospital merged with Berkshire Medical Center, and is now (2021) the Hillcrest Campus of BMC.
Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called patient representatives) were needed to protect and enhance the rights of patients at a time when hospital stays were long and acute conditions—heart disease, stroke and cancer—contributed to the boom in hospital growth.
[4] Hillcrest, a private hospital, [5] was then sold to an investor, who leased it to Osteopathic Hospital and Clinic. Osteopathic previously had acquired another hospital [6] to which they subsequently relocated, and the 5-story building [7] became St. Joseph's Hospital in 1985. [3] GHI [8] owned Hillcrest during the Osteopathic period. [9] [10]
Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital is a comprehensive-care hospital on Mayfield Road in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Cleveland Clinic Health System. [ 1 ] The hospital currently has 500 registered beds, [ 2 ] and serves as a level II trauma center for eastern Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, and Portage counties.
The stroke center at the hospital was one of the first five Joint Commission-certified comprehensive stroke centers in the country. It specializes in acute stroke, stroke prevention, and after-stroke care. [13] The Regional Burn Center is a level 1 pediatric and adult burn unit, and is the sole burn center serving San Diego County, Camp ...
Berkshire Medical Center is a mid-sized non-profit community hospital located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. [1] The hospital is part of Berkshire Health Systems, a three-hospital healthcare system operating in Western Massachusetts. [2] In 2022, the hospital reported 198 staffed beds, almost 12,000 discharges, and over 15,000 emergency ...
There were three critical elements of developing a profession on the table in these early years: association, credentialing and education. The Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy was founded as an association of mainly hospital-based patient advocates, without the autonomy characteristic of a profession: it was and is a member association of the American Hospital Association.
The UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest is the first of three primary hospitals for the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.. The region's first academic medical center offers both primary care and specialized services, including surgery, diagnosis and management of genetic disease, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, and the Sleep Medicine Center.