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HRSA funds life-sustaining medication and primary care to about half of the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States. The agency also furnishes funds and expertise that save and improve the lives of millions of mothers and children. HRSA also oversees all organ, tissue, and blood-cell donations.
The Healthcare Systems Bureau was formerly the Bureau of Health Resources Development, which was created at the end of the Public Health Service reorganizations of 1966–1973 by combining the Community Health Service and the Health Facilities Planning and Construction Service from the recently abolished Health Services and Mental Health Administration (HSMHA). [1]
Healthcare shortage areas are two types of designation within the United States determined by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) designate geographic areas or subgroups of the populations or specific facilities within them as lacking professionals in primary care, mental health, or dental care.
The Bureau of Primary Health Care is the direct descendant of the oldest function of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS): the system of Marine Hospitals founded in 1798. . When the PHS's predecessor, the Marine Hospital Service, first divided itself into divisions in 1899, the hospitals became part of the Division of Marine Hospitals and Rel
FRS creates facility identification records through verification and management procedures that incorporate information from EPA's program-specific national data systems, state master facility records, data collected from the agency's Central Data Exchange registrations and data management personnel. The FRS provides Internet access to a single ...
HRSA oversees services provided by the University of North Dakota's Rural Health Information Hub – formerly the Rural Assistance Center. RHIhub serves as an "information portal" to help rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available health care programs, funding and research.
Health Services Los Angeles County, officially the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, operates the public hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles County and is the United States' second largest municipal health system, after NYC Health + Hospitals.
In 2012, Narconon Arrowhead was under investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Pittsburg County Sheriff's Office, the Oklahoma State Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, for the four deaths related to the facility since 2009. Narconon is recognized by the state because of CARF accreditation since 1992.