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The Hill-Burton Act of 1946, which provided federal assistance for the construction of community hospitals, established nondiscrimination requirements for institutions that received such federal assistance—including the requirement that a "reasonable volume" of free emergency care be provided for community members who could not pay—for a period for 20 years after the hospital's construction.
Emergency medicine is a specialty that was first developed in the United States in the 1960s. [4] For the United States, the high number of traffic and other accident fatalities in the 1960s spurred a white paper from the National Academy of Sciences; it exposed the inadequacy of the current emergency medical system and led to the establishment of modern emergency medical services. [5]
Defence Technology Institute, the Thai defence technology public organisation; Department of Trade and Industry (disambiguation), a government department in several countries
Six points on the Star of Life. The six branches of the star represent the six main tasks executed by rescuers all through the emergency chain: [19] Detection: The first rescuers on the scene, usually untrained civilians or those involved in the incident, observe the scene, understand the problem, identify the dangers to themselves and the others, and take appropriate measures to ensure their ...
Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Investigational Interventions (MEURI) is an ethical protocol developed by the World Health Organization to evaluate the potential use of experimental drugs in the event of public health emergencies.
When Shania Twain hit the Las Vegas stage in a bedazzled two-piece ensemble, social media erupted with comments over her flashy outfit. The country-pop icon’s ensemble, part of her Come On Over ...
Patient transport is a service that transfers patients to and from medical facilities in non-emergency situations. In emergency situations, patients are transported by the emergency medical services. Non-emergency patient transport is sometimes run by the same agency.
Emergency medical services in the United States (1 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Emergency medical services by country" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.