Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2009
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United States President Barack Obama discussed his plan for health care reform in a speech delivered to a joint session of the 111th United States Congress on September 9, 2009. The speech was delivered to Congress on the floor of the chamber of the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presided over the joint session and was accompanied by the President of the United States Senate, Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States. Obama's speech addressed topics regarding the public health insurance option, private insurance reform, estimated costs and revenue, basic coverage for individuals and employers, as well as subsidies and waivers for those who can't afford coverage, and the importance of tort reform in bringing costs down.
Lawrence Jackson
THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary
<p><a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-a-joint-session-congress-health-care"><strong>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-a-joint-session-congress-health-care</strong></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong> <br />Politico article published leading up to President Obama’s 2009 joint session speech:<br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/obama-to-address-congress-on-reform-026700</strong></p>
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White House, Office of the Press Secretary
September 9 2009
Lawrence Jackson
THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary
White House
THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary
Photograph https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Obama_Health_Care_Speech_to_Joint_Session_of_Congress.jpg/1280px-Obama_Health_Care_Speech_to_Joint_Session_of_Congress.jpg
English
Speech
Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Obama, Public Health, US Congress, Speech
United States
Children's Aid Society
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">New York City founded in 1853. It serves 150,000 children per year, providing foster care, medical and mental health services, and a wide range of educational, recreational and advocacy services through dozens of community centers, camps and other locations in the New York area. CAS has originated a series of child welfare innovations that have since become commonplace, such as:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> some of the first industrial schools</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first parent-teacher associations</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first free school lunch programs</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first free dental clinics for children</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first day schools for handicapped children</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first kindergarten in the United States</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first foster homes</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> the first “fresh air” vacations, in which urban children visit host families in the country for the summer.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">In 2011, The Children's Aid Society was rated 4/4 by charities rating organization Charity Navigator, for the 11th consecutive year.</span></p>
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Underwood & Underwood
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/CAS1853-children.jpeg
National Orphan Train Complex
1909
National Orphan Train Complex
Source: Children's Aid Society. (2012, June 11). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:42, October 12, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/UVuCND">http://bit.ly/UVuCND</a>.
For Further Exploration Please Visi <a href="http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/">http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Aid_Society">Wikipedia</a>
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English
Organization
Children's Aid Society, NYC, Healthcare, Nonprofits, Foster Care, Mental Health, Community, Child Welfare
United States
Donna Leno Gordon - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner
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In her over two decades of service at Coney Island Hospital, Donna Leno Gordon has been a pioneer in the field of palliative care, the branch of medicine concerned with helping patients manage pain and discomfort and with easing the overwhelming emotional, psychological and spiritual distress of patients and families facing chronic or terminal illness. Under Gordon's leadership, Coney Island Hospital has become a local and regional leader in palliative care, launching its own dedicated 19-bed unit, a relative rarity among hospitals.
Combined, the palliative care programs at Coney Island Hospital have served more than 7,000 patients and their families and it receives 100 referrals each month. Gordon's program is so successful that since 2006 she has helped implement palliative care programs at 11 other HHC hospitals. Her colleagues praise her compassion, her calm, and her unwavering commitment to making palliative care a formalized part of institutionalized medicine. "Palliative care begins with dedicated clinicians, but it's often seen as the work of one or two caring staff members," she says. "I wanted to design an operationally sustainable program that gives clinicians replicable models so that no matter where they are, they can ensure that patients at the end of their lives have a voice." In addition to palliative care, Gordon is also an innovator in providing more humane, dignified care for the mentally ill. Her initiatives have reduced use of restraints and seclusion. "Donna has the reach, the scope and the heart of a champion," says Ross Wilson, HHC's Chief Medical Officer.
Fund for the City of New York
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/news/images/Donna_Gordon.jpg
Fund for the City of New York
2012
Fund for the City of New York
2012 SLOAN Public Service Award Winner: Director, Behavioral Health Nursing and Palliative Care, Coney Island Hospital, Health and Hospitals Corporation
<a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/news/sloan_award_alumna.htm">Baruch College</a>
Medium: Photograph. <br /><br />Link:<a href="http://www.fcny.org/fcny/core/sloan/2012/#Gordon_Donna"> Fund for the City of New York</a>
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Donna Leno Gordon, Sloan Public Service, Awards, Palliative Care, Medicine, Pain Management, Health, Healthcare
New York
President Barack Obama
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Pete Souza
https://barackobama.com/img/president-portrait.jpg
Pete Souza
2012
Pete Souza
Source: Barack Obama Biography. (n.d.). In Bio.com. Retrieved Oct 12, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/SRb6EF">http://bit.ly/SRb6EF</a>
About Barack Obama. (n.d.). In Obama for America. Retrieved Oct 12, 2012 from <a href="https://barackobama.com/about/">http://bit.ly/O8iLhf</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg">Barack Obama via Change.gov</a>
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English
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Presidents, Barack Obama, Obama, African-Americans, Healthcare
Historic
Public Health Doctor
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Artist Jose Perez published a series of his satirical paintings, including "The Public Health Doctor," where he caricatures former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who holds a tablet containing the Public Health Commandments.
Jose Perez
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/archives/dmp/archivesmonth/qqbdpp.jpeg
National Library of Medicine
1993
National Library of Medicine
The Public Health Doctor. Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez, Specialty by Specialty. WRS Publishing, 1993. Painting. Monograph.<br /><br />Source: The Public Health Doctor. (n.d.). U.S. National Library of Medicine : Celebrating the American Record of Health and Medicine. Retrieved Oct 15, 2012, from <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/perez/doctor.html">http://1.usa.gov/R1MM24</a>
Link: <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/archives/dmp/archivesmonth/favorites_koop.html">Public Health Doctor</a>
Medium: Painting
English
Artwork
Public Health, Healthcare, Paintings, Public Health Doctor, Art, Artwork, Jose Perez
United States
Nurse Elizabeth Grace Neill
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<p><strong><em>What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?</em></strong></p>
<p><em>GEORGE ELIOT</em></p>
Elizabeth Grace Neill ( 1846 - 1926) was a nurse from New Zealand who lobbied for passage of laws requiring training and registration of nurses and midwives in New Zealand. Neil was back in health care upon the establishment of the New Zealand’s Department of Health, creating a nursing service. 1901 came, and Neil got the privilege of helping draft a bill aimed to protect the public from nursing malpractice for New Zealand Parliament, one that became the world’s first Nurses’ Registration Act. Soon after, the Midwives’ Registration Act was passed and Neil was given the task of setting up the very first state maternity hospital, the St. Helen’s Hospital, which opened in 1905 and followed by 3 more in a span of 2 years. Elizabeth Grace Neil’s thorough knowledge of the technicalities of nursing profession made her a crucial personality in the international nursing politics.
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
https://teara.govt.nz/files/large_images/n015-neill-elizabeth-grace-atl-1.jpg
National Library of New Zealand
1890
Alexander Turnbull Library
Source: Elizabeth Grace Neill. (2012, May 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 9, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/UcNqx5">http://bit.ly/UcNqx5</a>
Link: The Encylopedia of New Zealand <a href="http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2n5/1/1">http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2n5/1/1</a>
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Elizabeth Grace Neill, New Zealand, Nursing, Healthcare
New Zealand
Mary Breckinridge, Nurse
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Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the New Model of Rural Health Care & Frontier Nursing Service. She started family care centers in the Appalachian mountains. She was known for helping many people with her hospitals. After equipping herself for the challenging nurse-midwife job to the rural America, Mary Breckinridge began serving in Kentucky in 1925, wherein she introduced the new system of rural health care. In that same year, she established Frontier Nursing Service, providing care for low service fee. In areas covered, maternal and neonatal mortality rates significantly dropped. FNS is still serving mothers and children down to this very day.
U.S. Postal Service
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The Smithsonian National Postal Museum
1998
U.S. Postal Service
Source: <a href="http://arago.si.edu/category_2043115.html">The Smithsonian National Postal Museum</a>
Source: Mary Breckinridge. (2012, August 24). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 15, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RxWZUw">http://bit.ly/RxWZUw</a>
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Mary Breckinridge, Nursing, Healthcare, Rural Healthcare, Public Health
Historic
Stephen Smith, Founder of the American Public Health Association
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Stephen Smith, a physician and attorney, served on the New York City's Metropolitan Health Board and founded the American Public Health Association in 1872. This was the first national organization created to improve public health standards. Its initials goals were:
1. "To awaken and maintain the active and permanent interests of the people in sanitary administration;
2. To facilitate the enlightenment of the public on this topic
3. To promote the appointment of more competent health authorities
4. To promote science and measures for practical application to public hygiene."
When it was first formed, the APHA had only ten members. It is now the "oldest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in the world," and continues to protect the nation through preventive health services and activities. The health professionals of the APHA are "working to ensure access to health care, protect funding for core public health services and eliminate health disparities."
Bain News Service
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/15000/15059v.jpg
Library of Congress
1-Jan-14
Bain News Service
Sources: The APHA Statistics Section. (n.d.). American Public Health Association. Retrieved Oct, 9, 2012, from <a href="https://www.apha.org/apha-communities/member-sections/applied-public-health-statistics">http://bit.ly/UPUZVj</a>
For further exploration please visit American Public Health Association:<a href="http://www.apha.org/"> http://www.apha.org/</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/15000/15059v.jpg">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/15000/15059v.jpg</a>
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Stephen Smith, APHA, Public Health, Healthcare, Health
Historic
Mississippi Midwives: A Glimpse of Health Care History in the Segregated Community
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These three photos were taken during the summer of 1929 in Indianola and Ruleville, Mississippi. The photos are part of a research project focusing on the role played by African-American midwives in providing pre-natal, obstetrical, post-natal, and general health care in the Mississippi Delta during post-Plessy v Ferguson (1896) era of legally enforced segregation.
We post them here on the Museum of Public Service website not only to draw attention to this page of the US Public Health Service history and to celebrate the dedicated public servants who worked hard to increase access to health care for African-American population in the segregated South, but also in the hope that the website visitors might be able to identify some of the women in the photographs.
What we now know, is that the younger of the two white women in the photos was Ann R. Brown (1903-2001), R.N., a 26 year old native of Scotland who came to the United States in 1923. After graduating from the Henderson (KY) Hospital Nurses' Training School, she briefly held positions at hospitals in Kentucky and Tennessee before going to Sunflower County in the Mississippi Delta in 1929. There, in Ruleville and Indianola, she taught African-American women to be midwives, taught parents basic health and hygiene for their families, and conducted child care clinics for African-American children. Her later medical career was spent in Kentucky. She died in Springfield, Illinois in 2001.
John Phillips
https://web.archive.org/web/20170708070502im_/http://www.vmps.us/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Ruleville%2C%20MS%2C%20%20Midwives%20Club%201929.jpg?itok=STpxnv58
https://www.sj-r.com/storyimage/LS/20130227/NEWS/302279818/AR/0/AR-302279818.jpg?MaxW=600
John Phillips
1929
John Phillips
<a href="https://www.sj-r.com/article/20130227/News/302279818?template=ampart">State-Journal Register</a>
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299610791_Mississippi_Midwives_A_Glimpse_of_Health_Care_History_in_the_Segregated_South_Virtual_Museum_of_Public_Service_Rutgers_University">ResearchGate</a>
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Photos
Mississippi, African-Americans, Healthcare, Health, Segregation, Racism, Ann R. Brown
Historic