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In 2017, Stanford Hospital was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the 9th-best hospital out of 5,462 medical centers in the United States, and third in the West Coast after the UCSF Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Center. [8] As of 2018, Stanford received high rankings in the following specialties: [9]
We want all patients to feel as confident and equipped as possible when it comes to choosing a doctor and hospital.” ... Stanford Health Care, Stanford. ... Advocate Lutheran General Hospital ...
He completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine at UCSF, then was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar in Health Policy, Ethics, and Epidemiology at Stanford University. He joined the faculty at UCSF in 1990. [2] In 2011, Wachter studied patient safety and hospital medicine at Imperial College London as a Fulbright Scholar. [3]
She became Stanford's inaugural Senior Associate Dean of global health in 2009 and started the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health in 2010. Prior to this, she was a professor at Yale, where she started the first refugee health clinic and homeless health mobile van project, for which she was awarded the Elm Ivy Mayor’s Award .
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.
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.
Sandra Jensen (1960 or 1961 – May 9, 1997) was an American heart-lung transplant patient and disability rights activist. Born with Down syndrome, Jensen was initially denied a necessary transplant due to her condition. She went on to publicly advocate for transplant patients with disabilities, and ultimately received a transplant on January 3 ...
Byerwalter currently serves as a director on the following boards: Pacific Life Insurance Company, Franklin Resources, Inc., Redwood Trust, Inc., the Burlington Capital Group, Stanford Health Care (formerly Stanford Hospital and Clinics) and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. She is a trustee emerita of the Stanford University board of ...