Hill-Burton Act


Hill-Bur·ton Act

(hil-bŭr'tŏn akt) U.S. Federal law that provided funds to improve hospitals that had become obsolete because of lack of money during the Great Depression and World War II (i.e., 1929-1945); hospitals receiving the grants were required to provide uncompensated services for 20 years to indigent patients. Because matching funds were required from the municipalities, the act had little benefit for poor people.