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The organization which issues the Life Safety Code with which the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations expects health care institutions to comply.  

A system formed by executive order in 1983 to come into action when a mass disaster occurs which overwhelms or destroys the disaster response resources of a local region. The two primary functions of the NDMS are to make it possible for civilian hospital beds to be used if necessary, and to create Disaster Medical…

An association of over 150 nonprofit community hospitals and health care systems, large and small, whose members provide more than 50,000 hospital beds nationwide and are located in 30 states. NCCH is dedicated to the survival and increasing efficiency of community hospitals, which deliver 80% of the hospital services provided to patients in the U.S.…

A demonstration program of the Hospital Research and Educational Trust (HRET) of the American Hospital Association (AHA) under a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.  

An independent, non-profit organization which is an accrediting agency for managed care organizations whose membership includes health care quality experts, employers, labor union officials, and consumer representatives. Its accrediting standards address quality, credentialing, members rights and responsibilities, utilization, preventive health services, and clinical records.  

A Washington DC-based organization promoting “resource mothers,” the U.S. name for the individuals who, in the United Kingdom, are called “health visitors.” These persons guide mothers through child care and also through the health care system. An effort of NCPIM is the Resource Mothers Development Project (RMDP), which seeks to introduce resource mothers into every…

This association works with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in the area of health maintenance organization (HMO) regulation.  

Established in 1964 under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with NAS the responsibility for advising the federal government. NAE also sponsors engineering programs aimed at meeting national needs, encourages education…

An immature stage in the life history of certain insects, such as grasshoppers and reduviid bugs. On emerging from the eggs, nymphs resemble the adult insects except that they are smaller, do not have fully developed wings, and are not sexually mature. The immature stage of insect development in which wings and genitalia have not…

An intense preference for the darkness and an avoidance of activity in daylight hours. This is sometimes a form of social phobia. The neurotic inclination toward nighttime over daytime.