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    Hospital Survey and Construction Act (Pub. L. 79–725, 60 Stat. 1040, enacted July 13, 1946), commonly known as the HillBurton Act, is a U.S. federal law passed...
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    elderly. It also extended and strengthened the 1946 HillBurton Act. Community Mental Health Act United States Department of Health and Human Services...
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    1950s, Hill criticized US President Dwight Eisenhower's attempts to reduce hospital funding that had been granted under the Hill-Burton Act. Hill strongly...
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    offered to increase accessibility of services. The passage of the HillBurton Act in 1946 provided federal funding for hospital construction, and Medicare...
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    Survey and Construction Act (Hill-Burton Act) PL 79-725 1949: Hospital Construction Act PL 81-380 1950: Public Health Services Act Amendments PL 81-692 1955:...
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  • Rodenticide Act (1947) introduced regulations on the use of pesticide in food production. The Hill-Burton Act (Hospital Survey and Construction Act) (1946)...
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  • Daniel attended Milton Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He married Polly Bennett in 1986, on the 67th wedding anniversary of his...
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    represents 55% of emergency room care, and 6% of total hospital costs. The Hill-Burton Act of 1946, which provided federal assistance for the construction of...
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    Westbank population with up to 63% of the funds would come from the Hill-Burton Act combined with 37% through locally matching funds. A public bond referendum...
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  • supported the construction of rural hospitals, paving the way for the Hill-Burton Act in 1946. Following World War II, the foundation supported the development...
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    Hospital and Wesley Long Hospital had received $2.8 million through the HillBurton Act that they were subject to the Constitutional guarantee of equal protection...
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    passing, or passing the buck, or sometimes (playing) the blame game, is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own responsibility. It is...
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    The Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (79 P.L. 396, 60 Stat. 230) is a 1946 United States federal law that created the National School Lunch...
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    Medal of Freedom shall be awarded to any one person, but for a subsequent act or service justifying such an award a suitable device may be awarded to be...
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    County received their first public hospital. It was completed under the Hill-Burton Act, which provided Federal funding for health care facilities to rural...
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    PHS funded construction of hospitals by the states through the 1946 HillBurton Act. In 1953 the Federal Security Agency was abolished and most of its...
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    system was shaped by the passage of the Hill-Burton Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and most recently, the Affordable Care Act. The latter social programs attempt...
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    adequate to meet the needs of the population, and through funds from the Hill-Burton Act and lavish contributions of hospital benefactors, the new St. Joseph's...
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    speeches around the country, and writing thousands of letters". Built on a hill overlooking the Kansas City skyline, on land donated by the City of Independence...
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  • Wesley. Retrieved June 28, 2020. White, Deborah (2004). Hospital on the Hill: The History of Medical Care From Tupelo Hospital Through North Mississippi...
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  • It succeeded Pittman Hospital, which opened in 1901. In 1959, the Hill-Burton Act helped combine Edgecombe General Hospital, with three other facilities...
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    Memorial Scholarship Act". Library of Congress. May 30, 1974. "H.R.17481 - 93rd Congress (1973-1974): Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act". Library of Congress...
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    conventional forces were ultimately reversed. During World War II, the War Powers Act of 1941 allowed the president broad power to reorganize the armed forces...
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    States: white Vaudeville refused to book more than one African-American act on a bill and for over a decade no Broadway show used African-American performers...
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  • resources were invested in the expansion of hospitals and obstetric care (Hill-Burton Act of 1946) rather than the midwifery model of care.: 87  Although increased...
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  • donating the land. In 1948, the hospital was the first to use the Hill-Burton Act for construction. ECU Health took over management in 1997. The hospital...
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  • 92–1, exempted private hospitals receiving federal funds under the Hill-Burton Act, Medicare and Medicaid from any requirement to provide abortions or...
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    residents raised more than $100,000 for the hospital's construction. The HillBurton Act also helped cover costs. The decision to have the site in Andrews was...
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    The Employment Act of 1946 ch. 33, section 2, 60 Stat. 23, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1021, is a United States federal law. Its main purpose was to lay the...
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  • the 60-bed hospital was opened. The funds included those under the HillBurton Act, and the total cost was $537,000. At that time it was a county general...
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