Merger Games: The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the Rise and Fall of the Allegheny Health Care System
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With deepening financial problems, Allegheny Heath, Education and Research Foundation filed for bankruptcy in 1998OCoin the midst of its landmark merger of The Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. What resulted was another dire event in an escalating disaster. As civil and criminal investigations probed Allegheny's collapse, the survival of the medical school and other health sciences university schools, and the operation of the hospitals hung in the balance. Fortunately, a savior arrived in the form of Drexel University who used this opportunity to create its own medical school."Merger Games"ais Judith Swazey's gripping account of this historic transaction. Based on extraordinarily detailed first-hand research and continuous inside access to the developments, this book clearly delineates who the players were and what this merger means for the future of medical education and institutional healthcare."Merger Games"ais a definitive history of one of the most important academic medicine mergers in Philadelphia and the country, which happened at a time when medical care was becoming commodified in almost every state.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:143990717X
ISBN13:9781439907177
Release Date:October 2011
Publisher:Temple University Press
Length:324 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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