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Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) is a 489-bed acute care hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1959, the hospital serves 200,000 outpatients and 20,000 inpatients annually. [1] The hospital operates a Level 2 Trauma Center, Level III NICU, a pediatric emergency department [1] and a Primary Stroke Center.
COMP Northwest is expected to nearly double the number of Oregon residents graduating as physicians from medical school. [12] In March 2012, the Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce gave COMP-Northwest the Small Business of the Year Award. [13] The school's first class of 100 graduated in June 2015. [14]
Osteopathic physicians and M.D. physicians are very similar, but D.O. physicians receive additional training in the musculoskeletal system, [17] and learn osteopathic manipulative medicine. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine describes the training of osteopathic physicians as "virtually indistinguishable" from that of M.D. physicians. [18]
Northwest Florida State College held a wall-breaking ceremony to begin a $30 million renovation to the campus nursing building.
The allied health professions represent a large cluster of health and care service providers, which usually require specific training and/or certification, but which are distinct from the medicine, nursing and dentistry professions. [1] There is a large demand for allied health professionals, especially in rural and medically underserved areas. [2]
In Canada there are four "allied primary health practitioners" identified under the National Occupational Classification (NOC) section 3124: physician assistant, nurse practitioner, midwife, and anesthesiologist assistant. [3] Nurse practitioners are permitted to provide several, but not all, of the health care services physicians provide. [4]
The National Physicians Alliance (NPA) was a 501(c)(3) national, multi-specialty medical organization founded in 2005. [1] The organization's mission statement was: "The National Physicians Alliance creates research and education programs that promote health and foster active engagement of physicians with their communities to achieve high quality, affordable health care for all.
The American College of Physicians (ACP) is a Philadelphia-based national organization of internal medicine physicians, who specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of adults. [1] With 161,000 members, ACP is the largest medical-specialty organization and second-largest physician group in the United States.