Hospitals and Medical Facilities: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-Eighth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 10041, S. 2531, and S. 894, Bills to Improve the Public Health Service Act for the Construction of Hospitals and Other Health Facilities, July 8, 1964U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 189 pages Considers legislation on Public Health Services facilities construction authorization extension. |
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Page 129
... problem of adequate hospital care and a sufficient number of hospital beds in some of the older areas of the country in terms of health facilities is very great . There is a great need to modernize the existing facilities and to build ...
... problem of adequate hospital care and a sufficient number of hospital beds in some of the older areas of the country in terms of health facilities is very great . There is a great need to modernize the existing facilities and to build ...
Page 130
... problem , too . But as a result of our failure to keep pace with obsolescence , the need to modernize our hospitals now bears a staggering price tag and an impelling urgency . A survey by the Public Health Service , in 1960 , estimated ...
... problem , too . But as a result of our failure to keep pace with obsolescence , the need to modernize our hospitals now bears a staggering price tag and an impelling urgency . A survey by the Public Health Service , in 1960 , estimated ...
Page 131
... problem right away . No matter what money figures are adopted , I would strongly urge that the modernization program ... problem now . If , during the next 5 years , we have only a token program , we will face then a problem of ...
... problem right away . No matter what money figures are adopted , I would strongly urge that the modernization program ... problem now . If , during the next 5 years , we have only a token program , we will face then a problem of ...
Page 134
... problems . Areawide health facility plan- ning by local and State agencies is a mechanism for achieving this goal , and is the best insurance that large sums of capital funds - for Federal , State , and local levels are spent wisely ...
... problems . Areawide health facility plan- ning by local and State agencies is a mechanism for achieving this goal , and is the best insurance that large sums of capital funds - for Federal , State , and local levels are spent wisely ...
Page 135
... problem has emerged which needs to be met . Many of our big city hospitals are becoming obsolete and increasingly inefficient to operate . Yet these are the hospitals on which we rely for specialized services and for setting standards ...
... problem has emerged which needs to be met . Many of our big city hospitals are becoming obsolete and increasingly inefficient to operate . Yet these are the hospitals on which we rely for specialized services and for setting standards ...
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88TH CONGRESS allocation amended American Hospital Association American Osteopathic Association American Samoa amount application appropriated approved assistance authorized believe bill centum CHAIRMAN CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Construction Act construction or modernization cost enactment ending June 30 Federal Government Federal Hospital Council Federal share fiscal year ending funds GRANING grants Guam health facilities Health Service Act Hill-Burton Act Hill-Burton program hospital and medical hospital beds hospital construction hospital facilities Hospital Survey June 30 Labor and Public legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LISTER HILL loan medical facilities ment mental million moderniza mortgage insurance nursing homes operation Osteopathic Hospital paragraph patients payment percent pital priority problem proposal public health centers Public Health Service purposes pursuant regulations rehabilitation facilities require respect rural areas section 601 Senator PELL subcommittee subsection Surgeon General TERRY Survey and Construction thereof tion transfer treatment centers U.S. SENATOR WILLIAMSON
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Page 48 - Federal share" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the...
Page 38 - title", when used with reference to a site for a project, means a fee simple, or such other estate or interest (including a leasehold on which the rental does not exceed 4 per centum of the value of the land) as the Secretary finds sufficient to assure for a period of not less than fifty years undisturbed use and possession for the purposes of construction and operation of the project. (h) The term "Federal share...
Page 89 - Hospital" includes public health centers and general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, and other types of hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, out-patient departments, nurses' home and training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care.
Page 67 - ... from the owners thereof) an amount bearing the same ratio to the then value (as determined by the agreement of the parties or by action brought in the district court of the United States for the district in which the facility is situated) of so much of the facility as constituted an approved project or projects, as the amount of the Federal participation bore to the cost of the construction of such project or projects.
Page 17 - Such application shall set forth — 1. a description of the site for such project; 2. plans and specifications therefor in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary under section 203(3); 3. reasonable assurance that title to such site is or will be vested in one or more of the agencies filing the application or in a public or other nonprofit agency which is to operate the community mental health center; 4.
Page 115 - Administration's share of such loan shall not be more than the higher of (A) 2% per centum per annum; or (B) the average annual Interest rate on all Interest-bearing' obligations of the United States then forming a part of the public debt as computed at the end of the fiscal year next preceding the date of the loan and adjusted to the nearest one-eighth of 1 per centum, plus one-quarter of 1 per centum per annum.
Page 84 - Act shall be construed as conferring on any Federal officer or employee the right to exercise any supervision or control over the administration, personnel, maintenance, or operation of any facility...
Page 84 - ... and, after consultation with the Federal Hospital Council, to make grants-in-aid to States, political subdivisions, universities, hospitals, and other public and...
Page 103 - State, by the municipality or other political subdivision in which the facility is located), for the accommodation of convalescents or other persons who are not acutely ill and not in need of hospital care but who require skilled nursing care and related medical services...
Page 161 - US Senate, Washington, DC DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN : We appreciate this opportunity to support again the Hill-Burton program. We think changes in the act along the lines of HR 10041 will significantly improve health services to the American people. We respectfully request that our letter and the attached statement be included in the record of your hearings on HR 10041. Sincerely yours, ANDBEW J.