Contents: Federal support for academic health centers -- historical perspective; Medical schools; Teaching hospitals; Veterans administration hospitals; Other health professional schools; Role of academic health center administration.
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The academic health centers in the United States, their component schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, optometry, public health and veterinary medicine, as well as their teaching hospitals, have developed as major and essential c...
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Recent changes in federal policy related to the research, education and patient care missions of the academic health centers are affecting and will continue to affect all components of these institutions including the individual health professions schools...
Many institutions of higher education have provisions for allowing academic latitude when serious mental health problems get in the way of learning. This article reviews a hierarchy of academic remedies that may be utilized and the role of the college counseling center with respect to their use. The discussion ...
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US medical care reflects the priorities and influence of academic health centers. This paper describes the leadership role assumed by one academic health center, the State University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and its eight affiliated hospitals, ...
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This article presents an historical review of the organization known as Student Health Services at Academic Medical Centers (SHSAAMc). The authors discuss characteristics of health service directors as well as the history of meetings, discussion, and leadership. The focus of the group is the healthcare needs of ...
Objective: Regardless of the outcome of current efforts at healthcare reform, the resources that academic health centers need--to provide care for increasingly complex patient populations, support clinical innovation, grow the clinical enterprise, and carry out their research and teaching missions--are in jeopardy. This article ...
Like all health care institutions, the nation's academic health centers are facing the need for fundamental change in structure and opportunity. This article examines the trends in five major areas: research, higher education, specialization, finance, and organization. The impact of these trends on the ...
Creating and Sustaining Equitable Community-Academic Partnerships in Health Research: The Detroit University of Michigan School of Public Health Presented at the Community-Based Participatory Research-Academic Urban Research Center (URC) Partner Organizations Butzel Family ...
of an individual's health; life- style and environment account for the rest. "The poor health of the poorReport 14 | January 2010 The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group The Role of Academic Health Centers in Addressing the Social Determinants of ...
... as a public service by the University of Maryland Medical System, a regional health care delivery system ... includes an academic medical center (the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore) as well as ...
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This paper provides an overview of aspects of an academic management information system (AMIS) at Creighton University's Academic Health Center. This report summarizes briefly some of the features of the system, our experiences in implementing it, some of the reactions from our academic ...
This report describes a clinic run by a federally-qualified health center and an academic medical center. The clinic expands the community's primary care capacity, combining advantages of big and small settings, and of its dual affiliation. Survey data suggest the clinic prevents health care ...
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The purpose of this article is to share the vision of an academic health science center in creating a centralized academic and service Department of Health Informatics. To do this, we will present background on the institution, a brief discussion of informatics (including medical and ...
in providing homes, jobs, safety, educa- tion, etc., so their health promotion efforts are limited at bestReport 14 | January 2010 The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group The Role of Academic Health Centers in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health ...
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Architectural, administrative, and educational aspects of the design of medical centers are explored. Based on the historical evolution of health care as a university responsibility, academic health science centers are expected to foster the team approach...
Academic training has been provided by the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health in Houston, Texas in the areas of industrial hygiene, occupational health for nurses, occupational medicine, and safety engineering and hazardous substan...
and undergraduate degrees in allied health disciplines. In fall 2007 the CAHP master's program in Occupational to be presented to the Board of Regents at their June 2008 meeting. Plan and establish a Center for Allied Health Programs in Rochester to offer academic programming in allied health ...
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Decreased public funding, a competitive healthcare market, and higher patient care costs have been blamed for the present financial challenges that confront academic health centers. The authors examined the costs associated with graduate medical education, particularly, indirect medical education expenses in the operating room. The ...
Reporting lines for directors of student health centers (SHCs) at colleges and universities are a matter of continuing interest for those of us who must follow them. SHC directors at institutions with academic medical centers face a greater number of reporting choices that also have the potential of being more ...
School-based health centers (SBHCs) provide physical and mental health services on school campuses to improve student health status, and thereby potentially facilitate student academic success. With a growing emphasis on school accountability and the simultaneous dwindling of resources at the ...
The opportunities provided at the Deep South Educational Resource Center (ERC) for academic and continuing education studies in the fields of industrial hygiene, occupational health nursing, occupational and environmental medicine, and occupational safety...
During the project period 2001-2004, the Deep South Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health provided opportunities for graduate academic and continuing education training in the professions of occupational and environmental medici...
, opened in 1931, not only provided coordinated medical and surgical care to private patients with moderate Medical Center has evolved into an even broader health care institution, one poised to meet the challenges of health care delivery in the twenty-first century. No longer solely a traditional academic medical ...
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Major changes in academic health centers (AHCs) may not be confined to the United States. Both Partners HealthCare System in Boston and University College London School of Medicine/University College Hospital Trust in London have recently undergone mergers, downsizing, and cost cutting on unprecedented scales. A ...
of Directors was held on Monday, April 25, 2005, in the Academic Research Building (Room EG013). The meeting � The Academic and Institutional Support result that is funded by Total State Support is unfavorable%. Proposed Capital Spending Plan for Fiscal Year 2006 The goals of the Capital Budget Process are
A collaboration between the New York Statewide Resource Center (SRC) and New York State Office for Aging provided a multidisciplinary geriatric/gerontology educational program for academic/clinical faculty in four health professional disciplines (nursing,...
Factors affecting the optimal size of an integrated health care delivery system in an academic medical center are discussed, including: the institution's structure for survival; technology, innovation, and health care costs; and specific characteristics of the institution's education, research, and patient care ...
Objectives: This article presents a taxonomy of the contributions of library and information services (LIS) in hospitals and academic health sciences centers. The taxonomy emerges from a study with three objectives: to articulate the value of LIS for hospitals and academic health sciences ...
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Objective: To assess medical students' experience with a wide variety of health concerns and their perceptions of the impact of these health concerns on their academic performance. Methods: The National College Health Assessment (NCHA) was administered to all students enrolled at a single medical school during the ...
The Nevada State Health Division developed a local academic-practice partnership with the University of Nevada Reno's Master of Public Health Program to assess the bioterrorism risk communication, information, response, and training needs of professional and public stakeholder groups throughout Nevada. Between October 16, 2002, and ...
This article reports the main findings of a descriptive study of the origin, structure, and evolution of the Morgantown Health Right (MHR) free clinic in Morgantown, West Virginia. The study was conducted between 1984 and 1995 to examine the organizational and operational features of this rural academic health ...
The new Health Sciences Library of Memorial University of Newfoundland is described and illustrated. A library facility that forms part of a larger health sciences center, this is a medium-sized academic health sciences library built on a single level. Along with a physical description of the ...
The mission, indeed the very existence, of the traditional academic health center is under siege. Changes in the financing and delivery of health care threaten the clinical revenue used to subsidize the tripartite mission of education, research, and patient care. Market practices, driven by the growth of managed ...
Careers in academic health centers (AHCs) come with a unique set of challenges and rewards. Building a stable and rewarding career as a psychologist in an AHC requires the efforts of a whole team of players and coaches. This paper outlines the characteristics of AHCs and the general skills psychologists need to thrive in this type of ...
This paper describes the information services planning methodology in use within a large academic health center. The planning process not only promotes better understanding among information services users and providers, but also achieves closer communications among all involved in the process. The key elements of the formal plan are ...
The Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health is part of a national network of academic centers established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to strengthen links between public ...
In an attempt to reduce the lengthy process of translating scientific findings into clinical practice, the United States and several European governments are making substantial investments in health information technology, comparative effectiveness research, and increased access to quality health care. New technologies-genomics in particular-are expected ...
This is a summary of activities occurring in the Southern California Education and Research Center (ERC) during the 5 year period between July 1, 1994 and June 30, 1999. The ERC has provided academic training in 4 occupational health and safety discipline...
The Region IX NIOSH ERC for Southern California is composed of four core academic programs, five correlated programs, and Center Administration. The core programs are one each in industrial hygiene (IH) and occupational health nursing (OEHN) and two in oc...
in 1931, not only provided coordinated medical and surgical care to private patients with moderate incomes, Duke University Medical Center has evolved into an even broader health care institution, one poised academic medical center where patients are referred almost exclusively for specialty care, Duke has
The Association of American Medical Colleges, under National Library of Medicine sponsorship, is conducting a study of the academic health sciences library's roles in education for the health professions as these may be affected by changes in health information handling and management. The study's aims, objectives, ...
Although much has been written about implementing mission-based management tools to help facilitate managing the primary academic missions at academic medical centers, there is surprisingly little written on standardized methodologies to align financial support across the academic and clinical missions. However, ...
The Michigan Academic Consortium of academic nurse-managed primary care centers supported member sites to venture into computer-based advances with the potential to improve quality of health services and students' educational experiences. The experiences of this consortium as it incorporated electronic ...
-centered homes, coordination of care, and innovative approaches to critical healthcare workforce challenges. Job Requirements: At least ten (10) years in progressively responsible positions in healthcare operations, public healthcare advanced degree is required. Significant experience in health sciences and academic ...
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This article describes the strategic planning process used by a major academic medical center to redesign the employee health service. The steps in the process are discussed and data demonstrating the success of the program redesign are presented. PMID:18983104
The general objective of this study is to develop a theory of problem solving during formal change processes in decentralized highly professional organizations. The impact of health policy and other contextual factors on the internal complex problem solvi...
With the increased emphasis on the nursing shortage, many academic institutions are constructing or renovating facilities to meet the needs of growing enrollment. The author provides practical suggestions to assist those engaged in planning and constructing a health sciences and/or nursing facility. PMID:18981904
the ultimate goal of an academic health sciences center is exemplary patient care as a teaching model, high in the health care team, and of the patient's rights with respect to teaching activities. 1.9 The attending1 BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS IN PATIENT CARE Approved by Board of Trustees University of Kentucky Albert
Unprecedented advances in biomedical research and the upheaval in health care economics have converged to cause seismic changes in the traditional organization of medical schools and academic health centers. This process is particularly evident in departments of internal medicine. The activities and functions of ...
The processes by which academic medicine will train the next generation of physicians and develop new knowledge have brought to the forefront the relationship between academic medical centers and community hospitals and practitioners. Over the past thirteen years, the Harvard Medical School Joint Center for ...
As academic health center seek to address the changes in the health care system and in medical education, several approaches have been tried, some successfully, others not. The authors describe a successful approach that involves a close partnership between the health professions schools at two ...
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During the past 10 years, there have been a number of large health care mergers in which at least one partner has been an academic medical center. This review summarizes the definitions, attributes needed for success, and reasons for failure of mergers. It then describes the various mergers and their outcomes and discusses the impact ...
The Institute of Medicine, in its 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, highlighted patient-centered care as an area for the development of quality measures. Since then, medical centers across the country have incorporated patient-centered modalities in their healthcare ...
Global health has become an increasingly important focus of education, research, and clinical service in North American universities and academic health centers. Today there are at least 49 academically based global health programs in the United States and Canada, as ...
With support from the National Library of Medicine, the University of Maryland at Baltimore is creating an Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS) that will serve as a prototype for academic health centers. A campus-wide undertaking, the IAIMS initiative at Maryland is characterized by its ...
Client visits to an academic community nursing center (n=25,495) were coded and analyzed. Results show expansion of nursing practice and services, strong case management, and management of illness care. The usefulness of computerized clinical documentation system and of the Lundeen conceptional model of community nursing care was demonstrated. (Contains 24 ...
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The transfer of information within the academic health center is complicated by the complex nature of the institution's multi-dimensional role. The diverse functions of patient care, administration, education and research result in a complex web of information exchange which requires an integrated approach to system management. System ...
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sensitive health data. The HIPAA-mandated rules now force all health care organizations, data handlers and the Academic Health Center in a Value- driven Health Care System #12;Contents Introduction and Value-driven Health Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
The aims and goals in setting up an Information Management and Technology Laboratory in the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library at the University of Connecticut Health Center are outlined. Health professionals have a chance in the Laboratory to try software and machines and acquaint themselves with some of the new technology. The Laboratory ...
In 1997, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio established the Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC) for the Lower Rio Grande Valley in south Texas. Through medical education programs, research facilities, and partnerships with health-care providers, ...
There is growing concern that the numbers of physician-scientists being trained in U.S. academic health centers will not be sufficient to continue the rate of current progress in biomedical research. The authors believe that the needs of current trainees and junior faculty must be addressed immediately, and that programs to train the ...
The International Society of Orthopaedic Centers (ISOC) was founded in 2006 to function as a think tank for leading international orthopaedic academic centers. ISOC's mission is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and cutting edge practices among these centers and to work together on patient care, education, and ...
UCI Medical Center continues to be an unparalleled resource in the region and the nation, offering an advanced level of health care only available at an academic hospital. The latest treatments, comprehensive outpatient services, new diagnostic techniques, as well as some of the most highly qualified medical professionals in the ...
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State mental health authorities can use public-academic partnerships to create professional roles in which leaders can track trends, identify problems, and carry out quality improvement projects to address key issues. Leaders with positions in both academic institutions and state mental health authorities ensure ...
The subject of health promotion professional training has raised a lot of interest in academic spheres, in professional organizations and in the health services sector at global and regional levels. Some of the topics that have stimulated regional dialogue and actions have been the following: developing curriculum and professional ...
The purpose of this article is to describe an innovative partnership among academic, community, and service to better meet the health care needs of underserved populations. The Center for Community Health Education, Research, and Service--a coalition of Boston education institutions, health ...
Problems facing health professions schools and academic health centers that can damage health were identified by the Southern Regional Education Board, along with recommendations for action within the states. Nine problems for these schools and centers concern: declining ...
The Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service model offers academic health centers methodologies for community engagement that can address the social determinants of disease. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center developed Health Extension Rural Offices ...
This paper describes a national survey designed to determine trends in videodisc use, development, and production in academic health sciences libraries throughout North America. In the winter of 1989, 131 four-page survey instruments went to library directors in academic health sciences institutions. Of these, 63 ...
Aging of the population, increasing prevalence of chronic and disabling illnesses with multiple social and behavioral risk factors, concern about quality of care, and escalating costs of medical care require fundamental changes in the way that academic health centers discharge their mission. This article describes a newly developed ...
The creation of the University of California Global Health Institute represents a paradigm shift in structure and function. Its 3 centers of expertise (Migration and Health, One Health, and Women's Health and Empowerment) not only involve all 10 of the University of California campuses but also ...
The organizational structures of academic health centers (AHCs) vary widely, but they all exist along a continuum of integration--that is, the degree to which the academic and clinical missions operate under a single administrative and governance structure. This author provides a brief overview of the topic of AHC ...
This paper reacts to seven papers presented at a symposium on the Institute of Medicine's 1995 report concerning the present status and future needs of dental education. The reaction focuses on the issue of dentistry's movement toward medicine both within the context of educational programs and as schools of dental medicine within academic health ...
The Association of American Medical Colleges conducted the study to determine the feasibility for broadening the application, utility and scope of the cost finding studies conducted by many academic health centers and individual institutions over the past...
The purpose of this paper is to briefly discuss changing Federal regulations governing externally sponsored research with respect to (a) property record accounting for assets purchased under a project and (b) reimbursement for indirect costs incurred in c...
The goal of the project was to develop a model service system for children of Hawaiian ancestry, who are disproportionately at risk for health, social, and academic handicaps. Activities included conducting an extensive assessment of community needs and d...
... accessible, authoritative information on a variety of current influenza related topics. Presents in-depth information on virus ... FLUNET, other academic-based public health preparedness centers, influen...
Establishing a successful robotics program requires consideration of several issues, including the surgical procedures to be performed, training and personnel, facilities, finance, and marketing. This article considers these factors from an academic health center standpoint and evaluates the benefits and risks of this new technology ...
After reports of acute health symptoms (e.g., headache, nausea, eye irritation) arose following the introduction of oxygenated gasoline in Alaska and some other locales in late 1992, EPA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, academic institutions, and other organizatio...
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College of Allied Health Sciences Bulletin 2008�2009 #12;#12;univerSity of cincinnAti College of Allied of 1998. CAHS is part of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center with the College of Medicine knowledge related to health sciences. The college supports the mission of the ...
This booklet provides examples of how students have been helped through the provision of school-based health care. The stories, submitted by principals, school nurses, nurse practitioners, doctors, health center directors, and students, illustrate the pressing health problems faced by students today. The problems ...
BACKGROUND: Although several studies have outlined the need for and benefits of diversity in academia, the number of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in academic health centers remains low, and minority faculty are primarily concentrated at the rank of assistant professor. In order to increase the diversity of the faculty of the ...
In response to opportunities and threats in their environments, academic health centers (AHCs) are making important changes in their structure. Several AHCs have legally separated their university hospital from the university. In contrast, other AHCs are linking the university hospital more closely to the medical school by ...
SummaryThis paper describes the development of an innovative health information technology creating a bidirectional link between the electronic medical record (EMR) of an academic children�s hospital and a commercially available, interoperable personal health record (PHR). The goal of the PHR project has been to empower pediatric ...
This paper describes the development of an innovative health information technology creating a bidirectional link between the electronic medical record (EMR) of an academic children's hospital and a commercially available, interoperable personal health record (PHR). The goal of the PHR project has been to empower pediatric patients and ...
Planning a new health sciences library at the beginning of the twenty-first century is a tremendous challenge. Technology has radically changed the way libraries function in an academic environment and the services they provide. Some individuals question whether the library as place will continue to exist as information becomes increasingly available ...
Advances in instruction-delivery technology have a direct impact on academic media centers. New technology challenges librarians philosophically, financially, and ethically to provide access to information and instructional systems. Each institution has a unique set of circumstances governing decisions to provide access to hypermedia. If patron needs are ...
A joint cholesterol research venture between a University of Massachusetts medical center and a health maintenance organization, the Fallon Healthcare System, is described, focusing on issues arising from the two institutions' differing priorities and perspectives concerning health care and research. While such a collaborative ...
Bern Shen is the Chief Healthcare Strategist for Intel�s Digital Health group, Chairman of The Health Trust, a Trustee of the Center for Improving Medication Management, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy. Formerly double Board-Certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine, he ...
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Biomedical technology developments and the increase in the production of medical information mandate a need for comprehensive information management in the academic health sciences center. Two traditional divisions involved in this process, the library and the computing center, have typically been segregated. The ...
With a long history as unique providers of health care, academic medical centers have been exempt from many of the troubles plaguing less distinguished health care organizations. But with the increasing dominance of managed care, academic medical centers are facing fierce ...
While physicians have historically held positions of leadership in academic medical centers, there is an increasing trend that physicians will not only guide the clinical, curriculum and scientific direction of the institution, but its business direction as well. Physicians are assuming a greater role in business decision making and are found at the ...
The growing burden of chronic disease, an aging population, and rising health care costs threaten the sustainability of our current model for health care delivery. At the same time, innovations in predictive health offer a pathway to reduce disease burden by preventing and mitigating the development of disease. ...
This article addresses workplace culture in academic libraries as an aspect of organizational success in achieving on-the-job diversity. It introduces a conceptual framework in the form of selected indicators as measurements of cultural integration in the workplace. Characteristics of organizational cultural health are also identified in order to direct an ...
Academic medical centers (AMCs; i.e., teaching hospitals) play a vital role in the U.S. health care system by pursuing a four-part, synergistic mission of clinical care, research, education, and community health. Historically, AMCs have used margins from clinical care to subsidize the cost of the other three ...
The need for consumer health information delivery is becoming more evident to librarians. The results of a user survey at a large medical center library and a metropolitan public library confirm that the general public is making demands for health information at both types of libraries. Issues facing librarians are discussed; roles are ...
Overwhelming evidence that relationships between universities, physicians and the medical products industry benefit patients explains the ubiquitous calls to encourage such relationships. Yet accumulating 'conflict of interest' regulations in academic health centers, government and industry have had the opposite effect. Justifications ...
In September 2006, scientists from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with scientists from the academic community and state health departments convened a symposium on air pollution exposure and health in ord...
models for delivering health sciences research, education, and clinical care are needed. The AHC PrecinctAHC Precinct Plan Task Force Report Executive Summary The precinct plan for the Academic Health Health Center to support education, research, clinical practice, and outreach. 5. Formulate a ...
Considers the expanding educational role of health sciences librarians in both academic centers and in hospitals resulting from influences of new educational models and new technology. Topics addressed include undergraduate health sciences education; continuing education; new technology and medical informatics; ...
Twenty-eight health sciences library building projects are briefly described, including twelve new buildings and sixteen additions, remodelings, and renovations. The libraries range in size from 2,144 square feet to 190,000 gross square feet. Twelve libraries are described in detail. These include three hospital libraries, one information center sponsored ...
Libraries in health care settings reflect their parent institutions, which, in turn, are affected by environmental changes. The economic climate of the 1980s, unleashing competitive forces and threatening the survival of some institutions, has had a major impact on both hospitals and academic health centers. The ...
An evidence-based practice (EBP) program that is designed to develop mentors in both clinical and academic settings has the potential for transforming a health care organization. This article describes an innovative program, Evidence Equals Excellence, which consists of two components: a clinical practice component for health care ...
