This article presents the "Summary of the 1991 Annual Reports of the Medicare Board of Trustees." The Board reports that the present financing schedule for the Hospital Insurance (HI) program is sufficient to ensure the payment of benefits over the next 14 years with trust fund exhaustion occurring in 2005 if the alternative II (intermediate) assumptions are realized. Although the HI Trust Fund...

This is the twenty-eighth report in a monograph series authorized by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association to give wider dissemination to the findings of the Association's many commissions, committees, and task forces that are called upon from time to time to evaluate the state of the art in a problem area of current concern to the profession, to related disciplines, and...

The third edition (January 2010) of the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching (the Ag Guide) was the collaborative effort of a group of 64 authors and provides a science-based reference and performance-based guidelines for institutions that use agricultural species in research and teaching. The adoption of the Ag Guide by the AAALAC Board of Trustees as a ...

lections and Services,” edited by Ciara Healy), pp. 391–401 © 2010 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article articulates the findings of two research studies. The first, a national survey, explores the educational background and current job responsibilities of media librarians. The second, a web analysis, assesses media-related curriculum components of accredited libra...

This is the twenty-seventh report in a monograph series authorized by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association to give wider dissemination to the findings of the Association's many commissions, committees, and task forces that are called upon from time to time to evaluate the state of the art in a problem area of current concern to the profession, to related disciplines, an...

On January 1, 1987, the Board of Trustees of Southwest Washington Hospitals instituted a smoking ban in all of its facilities, including the 17-bed general psychiatry unit. Our study of ward atmosphere, PRN medications, and negative incidents related to that change are reported. We feel the change was introduced successfully with minimal impact on the successful function of our service. Others ...

Each year Medicare's Board of Trustees issues a report that describes the financial condition of the Medicare program in the near term and over the next 75 years. Similar to recent trustees reports, the 2008 report projects that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be depleted in 2019, at which time scheduled income will cover 78 percent of expenditures. Looking at these projections, s...

lections and Services,” edited by Ciara Healy), pp. 402–411 © 2010 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This is a personal case study of the implementation of a Netflix subscription to augment a media collection at a community college. The implementation process is explained against the backdrop of a particular collection development crisis that gripped the college media colle...

The past 5 years have been exciting and critical for the dental hygiene profession. It started when ADHA requisitioned an environmental scan that revealed an opportunity to move the profession in a new direction that provide for more leadership opportunities and roles for dental hygienists.1 Subsequent to this scan, the ADHA board of trustees developed a bold and comprehensive strategic plan th...

This meeting of the Board of Trustees of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., pursuant to the notice of the Secretary dated May 29, 2007, and in accordance with Article VII, Section I, of the Code of Regulations of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., convened at 8:30 a.m. local time on June 11, 2007, in the Saxenburgaal Room of the Pulitzer Hotel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Ms. Wi...