Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ward is a place for people who no longer need all the nursing and housekeeping services normally given to hospital patients but who are not quite ready to leave either. The arrangement frees a bed in the hospital's acute section and gets the patient accustomed once more to caring for himself. In a VA hospital, with its relatively aged clientele, the program also reduces the number of patients who grow so used to the invalid's routine that they prefer it. Fourteen VA hospitals now use the system; private hospitals are beginning to follow suit...
There are economic advantages as well. William Grove, administrator of Chicago's Grant Hospital, estimates that a bed in a self-help unit costs the hospital only $70 a day, compared with more than $ 100 for a bed in a general-care ward. Patients, however, do not save any money; hospitals, reimbursed by insurance companies on a per diem basis, charge uniform rates...
...says Jeanne Salerno, Einstein's ambulatory care coordinator. She tells of one woman who had been particularly depressed and unwilling to do things for herself. The patient was recently moved to Einstein's self-help unit and encouraged to help out during feeding time in the maternity-ward nursery. Performing a useful task convinced her that she was better and could manage for herself, and a few days later she went home...
Most of the restaurants and coffeehouses are taking their own precautions to ward off similar attacks in the future, and many managers mentioned the need for better communication among Square restauranteurs, but could not point to any actual efforts in this direction...
...became known as 'The Second Lincoln,' and so many Negroes to jobs that his opponents referred to City Hall as 'Uncle Tom's ," had been defeated by a , who had displayed a hostile to the black vote. Having won without blacks, Cermak was under no obligation to the back ward machine and freely divested it of whatever sources of patronage Thompson had given...