Reminiscences of Marion Bayard Folsom : oral history, 1964.

Biographical Note

Executive, governmental official.

Scope and Contents

Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1955-58: medical school expansion, budget increases; 1950s health legislation, appropriation increases; long range health program planning; 1962 study of Public Health Service personnel system; task force studies on community health needs, services; value of Hill-Burton Act; expanding opportunities for medical students; Rochester area health care facilities planning, coordination; Patient Care Planning Council activities; "progressive care"; Mills-Kerr Plan, Social Security; nurses training program development.

Subjects

• Federal aid to medical education.
• Folsom, Marion Bayard, 1893-1976.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Health services administration.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Public health--United States.
• Public health laws.
• United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
• United States. Public Health Service.

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