Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...denied the privilege of lunch in the Dudley Dining Hall. No such decision has been made by me or anybody else. It is true that the dining hall was not intended to serve a large number of graduate students. Members of Dudley House, students in the University Extension Program, Radcliffe students and officers of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were the group for which priorities were established in the financing of and the planning for Lehman Hall. The problem now is not one of mix--graduate students are valuable and cherished users of the dining hall. The problem...
...despite these efforts at curbing Roxbury's swollen sickness rate, no one is pretending that the Harvard health plan is solely--or even primarily--designed to help the poor. The 6000 poor patients who will join the program will make up only 20 per cent of the plan's membership. The other 80 per cent--24,000 people --will be people who now have Blue Cross or other kinds of private insurance...
...Right away, any program that Harvard Medical School undertakes has a certain audience," Pollack said. When the plan was announced last November, it made front-page news all over the country. Since then, requests from medical planners have poured into Pollack's office. "There is an avid national interest in the plan," Pollack said last week. "We have already received many inquiries; I've already talked with several people interested in following ht model...
When Pollack arrived at the Med School and became an associate dean for Medical Care Planning, the idea of a community health program had already run through the Harvard discussion mill several times. As early as 1961, a committee working on plans for the new Affiliated Hospitals Center recommended that the Center incorporate some kind of new continuous-care pre-payment program as part of its responsibility to the community...
...because it was opposed to community-involvement health plans. The only evidence is circumstantial: Ebert came to Harvard, and after he became dean, the Med School's health plan finally came to life. Throughout 1965 and 1966, Pollack and others worked on the detailed planning necessary to develop the program. Talking with administrators, chiefs of staff, and insurance directors, the Harvard staff kept working on plans into 1967. Finally last November, Harvard University announced that its Medical School would operate the nation's first university-sponsored pre-paid community health care plan...