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A program which educates registered nurses in a junior college, the associate degree being given upon junior college graduation. The student’s classroom and laboratory teaching is principally provided in the college and clinical teaching in an affiliated hospital.  

One of three parts of the present administration’s proposal for national health insurance, the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan. AHIP is designed to provide health insurance coverage for low income and high medical risk people. It would be available to anyone electing coverage, at a premium no greater than 150 percent of the average group premium…

A risk which underwriters do not care to insure (such as a person with hypertension seeking health insurance) but which, because of State law or otherwise, must be insured. Insuring assigned risks is usually handled through a group of insurers (such as all companies licensed to issue health insurance in the State) and individual assigned…

A sub-state (usually multi-county) agency assisted under  section 314 (b) of the PHS Act, created by the Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Service Amendments of 1966 (P.L. 89-749), and charged with the preparation of regional or local plans for the coordination and development of existing and new health services, facilities, and manpower. The agencies…

An organization or system of health, educational and service institutions whose policy and programs are frequently under the direction of a medical school or university health science center and whose prime goals are to improve the distribution, supply, quality, utilization, and efficiency of health personnel in relation to specific medically underserved areas. The primary objectives…

State laws that require the pharmacist to “dispense as written.” The effect is to prohibit a pharmacist from substituting a different brand name drug for the one prescribed, or from substituting a generic equivalent drug in place of a drug prescribed b}’ brand name, even if the drug that would be substituted is considered to…

In insurance, State laws which prohibit insurers from giving preferential terms or rales, not warranted by the rating of the risks involved.  

An FDA program in which each batch of every antibiotic drug for human use is certified by FDA as possessing the necessary characteristics of identity, strength, quality, and purity to adequately insure safety and effectiveness in use. Before an antibiotic is eligible for certification, FDA must approve the drug as safe and effective under procedures…

A plan, which the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-641) requires health systems agencies to prepare or update annually, specifying, describing how to implement, and giving priority to, short-run objectives which will achieve the long range goals of the agency, detailed in its health system plan. Section 1513 of the…

Hospital, or other inpatient health program, services other than room and board, and professional services. They may include X-ray, drug, laboratory or other services not separately itemized, but the specific content is quite variable. Hospital services other than room and board. In a hospital, nursing services are included as part of “room and board”; since…