Download or read book The History of Health Services in Missouri written by John Clarke Crighton and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Public Health is Local written by Lorna Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missouri Association of Local Public Health Agencies desires to preserve the history of the development of organized public health in Missouri. Although many local public health agencies, i.e. county, city and multi-county, have maintained a historical account of their own agency, there is no compilation of these documents, nor is there any accounting of the establishment of a state public health agency. The State Board of Health, the first statewide public health entity, was established in 1883.
Download or read book From Shamans to Specialists written by Barbara M. Gorman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missouri Health Care in Perspective 2000 written by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and published by Morgan Quitno Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
Download or read book The CMH Story written by Kerry D. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about a hospital. The hospital in Bolivar, Missouri. The Citizens Memorial Hospital. CMH. It's also a story about how a hospital became an integrated, rural, health-care system. Citizens Memorial Healthcare. But mostly it's a book about people. It is about the people who believed in the idea and dreamed the dream and eventually made it all work. People who made a hospital grow and a how a grown-up hospital developed into an integrated health-care system. In the late 1970s, Polk Countians were on an island in regards to their heath care. The closest hospital was in Humansville, a half hour, or longer, drive. Many drove forty-five minutes to Springfield where there were several hospital options. Both were daunting trips and many died en route. Bolivar itself had three doctors in town, one from Egypt, one recently released from federal prison for shooting his wife, and one who was the remaining doctor from a successful practice. Soon the Humansville hospital found themselves in financial peril and would close. In 1976, Bolivar banker T. H. B. Dunnegan spoke out and wondered, "Why not a hospital in Bolivar?" He phoned the publisher of the local newspaper and set up a meeting to also include the newspaper's junior partner. This meeting set the wheels in motion as community members rallied in support of building a new hospital. After many trials, Citizens Memorial Hospital opened their doors in September 1982. In 2019, CMH serves eight counties in southwest Missouri with a Level III Trauma Center, a Level II STEMI Center, thirty-two primary and specialty clinics, and seven long-term care facilities. Authors Kerry D. Douglas and James C. Sterling were actively involved in the beginning stages of the project. Douglas became the first chairman of the hospital's board of directors, serving in that capacity for twenty-eight years. Remember the newspaper junior partner invited to the initial meeting? That was author James Sterling. Together the authors have woven the history of the hospital using newspaper articles, interviews, and their recollections"--
Download or read book Manual of Medical and Health Services in Missouri written by Missouri Health Council and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Medicine and Surgery in Missouri written by Max Aaron Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing Connections written by Daune Dailey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This catalogue describes the families who generously volunteered information about their private lives and how their connection to the University of Missouri changed over the past 150 years." "All the families in the exhibit can trace their Missouri ancestors back at least 150 years to 1839, the founding year of the University."
Download or read book Report and Recommendations written by Missouri. General Assembly. Interim Committee on Missouri Health Care Systems and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, the Joint Interim Committee on Missouri Health Care Systems conducted a study of the state's health care service delivery mechanisms. The interim study served to promote the legislature's discussion of accessible health care services, to bring people outside the legislature into the policy process and to establish a consensus on solutions to service delivery problems. In addition, the study confirmed earlier findings and revealed the presence of ·growing pressures. The committee recommends that the General Assembly take steps to 1) delineate health policy responsibilities; 2) strengthen community resources; 3) improve Medicaid services; 4) establish a publicly supported health benefit plan; 5) encourage availability of private insurance plans; and 6) collect and use health care cost data.
Download or read book Missouri Health Care in Perspective 2002 written by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and published by Morgan Quitno Corporation. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of Missouri written by Missouri. State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicine Without Method written by Sidney L. Bates and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most large American cities maintain some sort of municipally controlled hospital system; many of these facilities had their beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century. Like most municipal institutions, city hospitals were victims of the rapid expansion American cities experienced during this era and grew without benefit of any real planning. Kansas City was no exception. Construction of the first city hospital took place in 1870 and for the next century the city tried to keep abreast of the hospital and health needs that its burgeoning population demanded. It is the purpose of this study to illumnate the influences and attitudes that affected the institution during this time. Because the city grew from 32,260 residents in 1870 to 248,381 by 1910, improvements in the city hospital system were designed to meet only critical current needs. Even these stopgap measures did not garner full support from either the populace stubbornly opposed much-needed hospital improvements. The year 1908 marks the first large expenditure of city funds for municipal hospital construction, and Kansas City appeared to have a general hospital that would provide adequate service for years to come. By 1911, however, the building was overcrowded and the system proved incapable of delivering satisfactory service. The following fifty years saw many sporadic attempts by the city to meet the medical and health care needs of the populace. Some of these attempts were successful but many were dismal failures. Some groups desperately in need of medical attention were left out of the health care delivery system, or received inadequate attention at best. The black community, with an alarming morbidity and mortality rate to many diseases, had to settle for second-rate treatment until the establishment of an all-Negro hospital in the 1930's. Even so, equal service for blacks came only with the integration of all General Hospital facilities in the mid 1950's. Those suffering from tuberculosis were another category of high-risk, low-priority patients, but by 1915 city facilities were constructed specifically for tuberculosis treatment. It required some years of effort and experimentation, however, before this service was used to its full advantage. Like many other city services, the hospital suffered greatly under the Pendergast machine of the 1920's and 1930's. While needed construction was carried out at the facility during this period, hospital personnel, except physicians, were manipulated by the political bosses--with inferior services the result. The hospital physicians, responding to pressure from local medical societies and an antiquated medical hierarchy, were at times as restricted as were the city employees. While the overall situation at the hospital began to improve in the 1950's, the city sought a better method of management and in 1962 General Hospital passed from the direction of the health department to a not for profit corporation, marking the end of almost one hundred years of city management of a hospital system.
Download or read book Use of Medical Services in Rural Missouri written by Harold Frederick Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution of a Missouri Asylum written by Richard L. Lael and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fulton State Hospital was not only Missouri's first state mental asylum but also the first such institution west of the Mississippi. In tracing its founding and evolution over a century and a half, this book sheds light on both a neglected aspect of the state's history and the development of mental health care in America. It acknowledges the noble aspirations of Fulton State Hospital--as well as its failures, throughout much of its existence, to transform those aspirations into realities. This institutional history of the hospital traces the debates surrounding its creation (as the State Lunatic Asylum) in a time when mental illness was barely understood. Although the Fulton hospital was initially conceived as a treatment facility, it quickly transformed into a primarily custodial institution. It existed as a self-sufficient establishment until the mid-twentieth century, dependent on patient labor and even producing its own food. But for the most socially disadvantaged and for the severely delusional, life at Fulton was anything but therapeutic. The book describes not only the lofty goals of professionals dedicated to treating the mentally ill but also an institution once clouded by overcrowding, financial mismanagement, political cronyism, and wrongful confinement. It considers segregation within the hospital, where the first black doctor was hired in 1960 and where racism nevertheless continued to flourish, and it describes how, even after the 1921 Eleemosynary Act, the patronage system continued to plague Fulton for two more decades. The authors reveal changing attitudes toward new treatments in the mid-twentieth century as psychotherapy and drugs became common, and decisions at Fulton regarding patient care are described within the context of progress in Europe and the eastern United States. The book addresses the complexities facing the physician-superintendents who supervised both medical therapies and administrative matters, depicting ongoing tension between hospital finances and state support and showing the difficulties state institutions faced in a "low tax/low public service" environment. As Fulton State Hospital enters the twenty-first century, clients have become active in the development of institutional policies--a far cry from the warehousing of patients a hundred years ago. In tracing these seismic shifts in mental health care, this book offers an eye-opening exploration of how one state has sought to care for its citizens.
Download or read book Progress and Challenges in Health and Health Care in Missouri written by Dianne Petersen and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missouri Division of Health Directory of Services 1985 written by Missouri. Division of Health and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
