Report on Health Care of the Aging Veteran: A Report of the Geriatrics and Gereontology Advisory Committee

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 120 pages

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Page 20 - Code, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows: "(b) In order to carry out more effectively the primary function of the Department of Medicine and Surgery to provide a complete medical and hospital service for the medical care and treatment of veterans...
Page 83 - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, New York 10461. USA Items for the 'Calendar of Events' and 'Announcement' sections should be sent to Dr.
Page 61 - From 1975 to 1982 he was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
Page 87 - She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Page 11 - The VA offers a unique opportunity to carry out a wide variety of clinical studies involving a distinct patient population in a large number of hospitals under a single management . -- A high quality research program with its attendant focus on inquiry and creativity fosters an environment conducive to professional excellence in health care delivery. -- The overall national biomedical research effort will be more effective if the current pluralistic system of funding is maintained.
Page 40 - ... Presbyterian and Bellevue and New York City hospitals in New York City, University Hospital in Philadelphia, Massachusetts General, and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals in Boston, or University, Passavant, and Wesley hospitals in Chicago. I suggested that the VA arrange to have the deans of the medical school staff the hospitals, putting in chiefs of service, residents, and interns. In this way the VA would be drawing on the cream of the civilian medical profession.
Page 40 - Frank T. Hines. The gist of it was that when the VA built or leased or otherwise created new hospitals to meet the tremendous need that was coming, it ought to put them near the established medical schools and make them teaching hospitals like Presbyterian and Bellevue and New York City hospitals in New York City, University Hospital in Philadelphia, Massachusetts General, and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals in Boston, or University, Passavant, and Wesley hospitals in Chicago.
Page 39 - There was not a single veterans hospital that was accredited by the American Medical Association for residencies of internships. No teaching was permitted In these hospitals. They were not even called hospitals — the official name for them was "VA facilities
Page 40 - We need clinical psychologists to cope with the patient's morale problems and find out what sort of work he is mentally and physically adapted to. We need an occupational therapist to train him for a Job, and then somebody to help him find and get the job. During this whole process we must constantly keep ourselves informed, through a variety of tests, as to just how much the patient really can undertake in safety.
Page 69 - The first meeting of the Committee was held in Washington, DC, on June l7-l8, l980.

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