Why urban voluntary hospitals close.

Multi-institutional ethics committees: for rural hospitals, and urban ones too.

Vulnerability of Rural Hospitals to Medicare Outpatient Payment Reform

Because the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 requires implementation of a Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient services, the authors evaluated the potential impact of outpatient PPS on rural hospitals. Areas examined include: (1) How dependent are rural hospitals on outpatient revenue? (2) Are they more likely than urban hospitals to be vulnerable to payment reform...

The Manchester and Salford Lock Hospital, 1818-1917.

A GROWTH in the numbers and range of specialist hospitals was a distinctive feature of the expanding provision of medical care facilities during the nineteenth century. Concentrating upon diseases and complaints which were frequently excluded from the general hospitals or where the demand for medical treatment was not satisfactorily supplied by existing hospitals, specialist hospitals dealing w...

Dietaries in maternity hospitals.

Several comprehensive studies of hospital feeding have been planned to show as precisely as possible the nutritive value of representative diets provided in hospitals for patients and staff. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Department of Health for Scotland has been carefully examining the problem of hospital diets and has made surveys and will publish a report in due course. The purpos...

A comparison of future recruitment needs in urban and rural hospitals: the rural imperative.

BACKGROUND The potential impact of shortages of the surgical workforce on both urban and rural hospitals is undefined. There is a predicted shortage of 30,000 surgeons by 2030 and the need to train and hire more than 100,000 surgeons. The aim of this study is to estimate the average recruitment needs in our nation's hospitals for 7 surgical specialties to ensure adequate access to surgical care...