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BJC HealthCare is a non-profit health care organization based in St. Louis, Missouri.BJC includes two nationally recognized academic hospitals – Barnes–Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, which are both affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine.
Whitman-Walker Health (WWH), formerly Whitman-Walker Clinic, is a non-profit community health center in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area [1] with a special expertise in HIV/AIDS healthcare and LGBT healthcare. Chartered as an affirming health center for the gay and lesbian community in 1978, Whitman-Walker was one of the first responders ...
It is also affiliated with St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Southern Illinois University School of Dentistry, and University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Optometry. [1] These affiliations support medical education, residency programs, and research partnerships, enabling the hospital to be a training ground for future healthcare professionals. [1]
[15] [16] The Peoples' Free Medical Clinics served as an advocating body as well. These clinics helped integrate the sector of health care into political and social spheres within the United States. Their efforts played a key role in social reform in health care that ultimately led to the passage of the Medicare and Medicaid act of 1965. [17]
As of December 2015, there are more than 2,000 retail clinics located in 41 states and Washington, DC in the United States. [2] Retail clinics are staffed by physician assistants or nurse practitioners and most are open seven days a week – twelve hours a day during the workweek and eight hours a day on the weekend. [3]
White Americans, as the largest racial group in the United States, have historically had better health outcomes than oppressed racial groups in America. [1] However, in recent years, the scholarly discourse has switched from recognition of the immense positive health outcomes of white Americans towards understanding the growing persistence of negative outcomes unique to this racial group.
The total number of staff on duty at the White House Medical Unit varies over time. From 1993-2001 there were 20 staff members. During 2001 it increased to 22 total staff, [4] and by 2010, 24 total staff members. [3]
While they have better health than historically oppressed groups, the health of White Americans is poorer than that of Whites in other wealthy countries. [ 24 ] [ 197 ] This line of argument posits that racism in Whites towards other ethnic groups has caused White opposition towards social welfare programs, the implementation of which would ...