Question: Similac is marketed by a health care company that has how many employees ?
Context: Similac (for "similar to lactation") is a brand of infant formula that was developed by Alfred Bosworth of Tufts University and marketed by Abbott Laboratories.  It was first released in the late 1920s, and then reformulated and concentrated in 1951.  Today, Similac is sold in 96 countries worldwide. Healthy Way LA (abbreviated HWLA) was a free public health care program available to underinsured or uninsured, low-income residents of Los Angeles County.  The program, administered by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, was a Low Income Health Program (LIHP) approved under the 1115 Waiver.  HWLA helped to narrow the large gap in access to health care among low-income populations by extending health care insurance to uninsured LA County residents living at 0 percent to 133 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).  Individuals eligible for HWLA were assigned to a medical home within the LA County Department of Health Services (LADHS) or its partners, thus gaining access to continuous primary care, preventive and specialty services, mental health services, and other support systems.  HWLA was one of the few sources of coordinated health care for disadvantaged adults without dependents in LA County.  HWLA was succeeded by My Health LA, a no-cost health care program for low-income Los Angeles County residents launched on October 1, 2014. The Health Care Justice Act (20 ILCS 4045 ) encouraged the Illinois General Assembly to implement a health care access plan by July 1, 2007, that would provide affordable, accessible, quality health care for all Illinoisans.  The Health Care Justice Campaign (a project of Campaign for Better Health Care) won passage of the act in 2004.  The act encouraged Illinois to create a health care plan that would provide preventive, acute and long-term health care services to all citizens of Illinois.  It also suggests the importance of not only ensuring availability for health care, but continuing to maintain and improve the quality of health care services (Illinois Department of Public Health). The American Hospital Association (AHA) is a professional association that seeks to promote quality health care provision by hospitals and health care networks through public policy and providing information about health care and health administration to health care providers and the public.  Founded in 1898 with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C., the AHA hosts a Resource Center with over 47,000 books on health care (some services fee based) and maintains a Health Planning and Administration (HEALTH) database that provides current information on health care unrelated to clinical treatment.  Membership includes close to 5,000 organizations and 37,000 individuals. Abbott Laboratories is an American worldwide health care company.  It has 94,000 employees and operates in more than 150 countries.  The company headquarters are in Lake Bluff, Illinois.  The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known drugs; it eventually grew to also sell research-based drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, and nutritional products.  It split off the research-based pharmaceuticals into Abbvie in 2013.  In 2015, revenues were $20.4 billion. Primary Care Behavioral Health Consultation model (PCBH) is a psychological approach to population-based clinical health care that is simultaneously co-located, collaborative, and integrated within the primary care clinic.  The goal of PCBH is to improve and promote overall health within the general population.  This approach is important because approximately half of all patients in primary care present with psychiatric comorbidities, and 60% of psychiatric illness is treated in primary care.  Primary Care practice has traditionally adopted a generalist approach whereby physicians are trained in the medical model and solutions to problems typically involve medications, procedures, and advice.  Appointment times are short, with the goal of seeing a large number of patients in a day.  Many patients present with mental health care needs whose symptomology may overlap with medical disorders and which may exacerbate, complicate, or masquerade as physical symptoms.  In addition, many medical problems present with associated psychological sequelae (e.g. stress, emotional reactions, dysfunctional lifestyle behaviors), that are amenable to change, through behavioral intervention, that can improve outcomes for these health problems.  Over 50% of medical visits to primary care clinics today are related to chronic medical conditions (e.g. chronic pain, diabetes, COPD, hypertension, obesity).  As we learn more and more about the contributing factors to the development and maintenance of these medical problems, there is growing evidence that the PCBH model affords us the opportunity for early identification and behavioral/medical intervention that can prevent some acute problems from becoming chronic health care problems.  Behavioral Health Consultants (BHCs) work side-by-side with all members of the clinical care team (including primary care providers (PCPs) and nursing staff) to enhance preventive and clinical care for mental health problems that have traditionally been treated solely by physicians.  The role of the BHC is to facilitate systemic change within primary care that facilitates a multidisciplinary approach both from a treatment and reimbursement standpoint.  BHCs typically collaborate with physicians to develop treatment plans, monitor patient progress, and flexibly provide care to meet patients’ changing needs In this review the terms Primary Care Behavioral Health Consultation and Behavioral Health Consultation will be used interchangeably. GeoAccess, Inc. was the company that pioneered the use of geographic data to analyze the accessibility of health care networks.  Prior to GeoAccess’ work in the early 1990s, the accessibility of health care networks was estimated by comparing zip codes of health care providers and consumers.  GeoAccess developed software applications which allowed the accessibility of health care networks to be accurately measured based on the geographic coordinates of health care provider locations.  For the first time, employers and government-sponsored programs could establish access standards to take the actual accessibility of health care providers into account when selecting health care networks.  By the mid-1990s, GeoAccess-based analysis was the industry standard for measuring the accessibility of health care networks. The United States Navy Health Care organization consists of more than 4,300 physicians, 1,200 dentists, 3,900 nurses, and 2,600 administrative, research and clinical specialists.  These Sailors work on all Navy ships, within Medical Treatment Facilities, and serve on the front lines with Marine Corps Units while providing health care to servicemembers located on bases worldwide.  Sailors within Navy Health Care work behind the scenes, as well as on the front lines, to provide physical and mental health care to fellow servicemembers.  The men and women in Navy Health Care also provide rapid humanitarian assistance services for people in countries affected by catastrophe or conflict.  In addition to providing care to Navy servicemembers and their families, the Navy Health Care Team also supports the Marine Corps, Coast Guard and their dependent populations. Steward Health Care is the second largest healthcare system in New England.  It was established when the Caritas Christi Health Care system was sold to the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management in 2010; Cerberus converted Caritas to a for-profit company and renamed it Steward Health Care System.  Steward Health Care has 17,000 employees, over 2,000 hospital beds across 11 hospitals, and serves more than 150 communities.  Steward Health Care is led by CEO Ralph de la Torre, MD, and located in Boston.  The System is still owned by Cerberus Capital Management. Universal health care, (also referred to as universal health coverage, universal coverage, universal care or socialized health care) usually refers to a health care system that provides health care and financial protection to all citizens of a particular country.  It is organized around providing a specified package of benefits to all members of a society with the end goal of providing financial risk protection, improved access to health services, and improved health outcomes.  Universal health care is not one-size-fits-all and does not imply coverage for all people for everything.  Universal health care can be determined by three critical dimensions: who is covered, what services are covered, and how much of the cost is covered.  It is described by the World Health Organization as a situation where citizens can access health services without incurring financial hardship.  U.N. member states have agreed to work toward worldwide universal health coverage by 2030.
Answer: 94,000