Word: ahc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Roxbury community. Several Medical students sharply criticised the AHC officials Wednesday night for "abandoning" that figure...
...Francis D. Moore '35, surgeonin-chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital-which is to be incorporated into the AHC-answered that hospital officials would attempt to merge the ambulatory department of the AHC with the hospital's extended-care facilities in order to improve the level of community care...
Several students at the Medical School charged that the AHC had not attempted to survey the health needs of the surrounding community. "The background of those the Brigham has treated has been ascertained information concerning those who are not reaching the Brigham has not been ascertained," Howard B. Waitzkin '66, a second-year Medical student, said...
...AHC has already committed itself to providing care for "a neighborhood involving 64,000 people," Dr. George W. Thorne, physician-in-chief of PBBH and Samuel A. Levine Professor of Medicine, said yesterday...
Further, it continues to appear uncertain that the medical institution for which these homes were originally scheduled to be torn down-the Affiliated Hospitals Center (AHC)-will succeed in bettering the deficiencies in local medical care that now plague the Roxbury area. Several months ago, the governing board of the AHC announced that a 46 per cent cutback would be made in its outpatient ambulatory care budget. With this cutback, medical authorities contend, the capacity of community health care in the new hospital is presently reduced to the already inadequate level of care which existing area institutions now maintain. AHC...