Tupsley Hospital for infectious diseases and Tupsley Smallpox Hospital; Holme Lacy Hospital for ‘mental defectives’; the cottage hospitals at Ledbury, Leominster, Ross-on-Wye, and Kington; Stretton Sugwas Hospital, near Credenhill; Nieuport Sanatorium; the former work...
Stone House Hospital, near Dartford in Kent, built as the City of London Pauper Lunatic Asylum and opened in 1866. Extract from the 2nd-edition OS Map revised in 1895, reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland The Corporation of London dragged its heels over building a paup...
Current benchmarks identified for the VBP score that is used to modify a hospital's base operating diagnosis-related group payment are at or near 100%.65,66 II. Infrastructure requirements A. Trained personnel 1. Infection preventionists must (1) be specifically trained in m...
More recent reports suggest much lower rates, but it is unclear to what extent these lower rates reflect better care versus stricter application of subjec- tive surveillance criteria.3,4 Notwithstanding surveil- lance rates that hover near zero, clinical surveys su...