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Rehabilitation is a relatively new medical specialty, becoming certified as such in 1947. [6] Immediately following World War II, which had a significant impact on the specialty of rehabilitation, General Omar Bradley, the head the Veterans Administration, recruited Dr. Paul Magnuson, [7] a U.S. Army orthopaedic surgeon, who created the infrastructure for the VA to provide rehabilitation for ...
She found employment working with women and children who lost their husbands and fathers in the Civil War. It wasn't long before she decided to raise money for a hospital to tend to the overwhelming numbers of women and children seeking medical help. The Chicago Hospital for Women and Children opened in 1865. She became the surgeon and top ...
An environmental control device is a form of electronic assistive technology which enables people with significant disabilities to independently access equipment in their environment e.g. home or hospital. An environmental control controller is the device that controls the equipment – like a remote control.
Carlinville Area Hospital, Carlinville; Cook County Health Provident Hospital of Cook County, Chicago; John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago; CGH Medical Center, Sterling; Chicago Behavioral Hospital, Des Plaines; Chicago Lakeshore Hospital, Chicago; City of Hope, Chicago [2] Clay County Hospital,Flora; Community First Medical ...
Getting around Chicago has long been difficult for David Zoltan, but nonetheless he once would have jumped on a bus to get a bite to eat. He would take public transit to meet up with friends, and ...
The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) is a non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois. Originally founded in 1994, LVEJO's mission is to achieve environmental justice in the Little Village area of Chicago. LVEJO's work is centered around working with the community and aims to address the root of environmental issues.
Vanessa Schwartz, executive director of Metropolitan Family Services Southeast Chicago Center, cited environmental issues with the former U.S. Steel site. “The land has been surely contaminated.
Like Kalfas, he has pushed area doctors and state officials to embrace this medical model. Because his pleas have gone ignored, he has a waiting list of about 100 addicts hoping to get on the medication. One of his patients, a woman in her mid-50s, had a son who was being treated at Grateful Life, a program that she didn’t quite trust.