title: The big bang. The Hill-Burton Act put hospitals in thousands of communities and launched today's continuing healthcare building boom.
abstract: The Hill-Burton act of 1946 put hospitals in thousands of communities across the nation and launched a healthcare building boom that continues today. Robert Taft, right, a Republican senator from Ohio, played a large role in making certain that states, rather than the federal government, had maximum administrative authority.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mantone
mesh_terms: D035082:Federal Government; D005379:Financing, Construction / Q000266:history; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000191:economics*; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States