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OverviewThe story of one of the most public failures in healthcare consolidation Full Product DetailsAuthor: Judith P. SwazeyPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781439907177ISBN 10: 143990717 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 14 October 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Ethnography Becomes History The Players: People and Organizations Prologue. Honoring the Past, Creating the Future. The Last Commencements of the HU and MCP Schools of Medicine and the First Commencement of the MCP&HU School of Medicine Part I. Let the Games Begin 1. Setting the Stage: Hahnemann, MCP, and Allegheny 2. Entering the Merger Arena 3. If At First You Don't Succeed: The Acquisition of Hahnemann 4. Our Maximum Leader: Sherif S. Abdelhak Part II. Merger Landscapes 5. Corporate, Higher Education, and Hospital Merger Arenas 6. Merger Patterns: Human and Organizational Upheavals Part III. Merger Games 7. Who and What We Are: Creating an Organizational Image and Identity Chapter 8. Consolidation Calendar: Tasks and Timetables 9. Merger Guinea Pigs: The Medical Students 10. Upsizings: Institutional Expansions 11. And Downsizings: Institutional Contractions Part IV. End Games 12.AHERF, AHERF Sat on A Wall, AHERF, AHERF Had a Great Fall 13. Saving the University 14. No One Could Put AHERF Together Again 15. End Games: 2002-2003 ReferencesReviewsSwazey writes a detailed history... [She] reveals the difficulty of merging the nonprofit, for-profit, and medical education cultures of American health care. She shows how a combination of corporate hubris, ambitious vision, and the sheer complexity of the merger-with its many players and multiple allegiances-doomed it to fail. The book demonstrates on a micro level the complexity of American health care, showing how on-the-ground considerations are driven by larger policy goals. VERDICT...an informative read. -Library Journal Swazey writes a detailed history... [She] reveals the difficulty of merging the nonprofit, for-profit, and medical education cultures of American health care. She shows how a combination of corporate hubris, ambitious vision, and the sheer complexity of the merger - with its many players and multiple allegiances - doomed it to fail. The book demonstrates on a micro level the complexity of American health care, showing how on-the-ground considerations are driven by larger policy goals. VERDICT...an informative read. Library Journal [A] well-written and highly detailed book that often becomes a real page-turner - and that constitutes a cautionary tale as we enter another era of frenzied buying, selling, and consolidation of health systems...Readers...will undoubtedly appreciate Merger Games' attention to attributed quotes, detail, and extensive documentation on the perils of health system mergers and acquisitions. Anyone who focuses on medical education will be especially interested in Swazey's recounting of how the communities of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University met, gossiped, struggled, downsized, and adapted to a new business climate that no longer valued medical education in the way it had. Health Affairs, April 2012 This is a powerful human drama of pride, overreach, and fall and Swazey tells it well. While ostensibly an 'ethnographic' study, that seeks to understand the Allegheny story through the lens of social systems theory, what elevates the volume above the merely academic is a powerful narrative drive. It's the mystery of human character, and our desire to learn what happens and why, that holds our interest... [I]t's a bit of a page-turner. Society, May/June 2012 Swazey writes a detailed history... [She] reveals the difficulty of merging the nonprofit, for-profit, and medical education cultures of American health care. She shows how a combination of corporate hubris, ambitious vision, and the sheer complexity of the merger - with its many players and multiple allegiances - doomed it to fail. The book demonstrates on a micro level the complexity of American health care, showing how on-the-ground considerations are driven by larger policy goals. VERDICT...an informative read. Library Journal [A] well-written and highly detailed book that often becomes a real page-turner - and that constitutes a cautionary tale as we enter another era of frenzied buying, selling, and consolidation of health systems...Readers...will undoubtedly appreciate Merger Games' attention to attributed quotes, detail, and extensive documentation on the perils of health system mergers and acquisitions. Anyone who focuses on medical education will be especially interested in Swazey's recounting of how the communities of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University met, gossiped, struggled, downsized, and adapted to a new business climate that no longer valued medical education in the way it had. Health Affairs, April 2012 Author InformationJudith Swazey is an independent scholar and an Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Her publications, which have focused on social, ethical, and policy issues in biomedical research, health care, and professional education, include In Sickness and in Health: Social Dimensions of Medical Care (with Ralph Hingson, Norman Scotch, and James Sorenson); Social Controls and the Medical Profession (edited with Stephen Scher); and, with Renee C. Fox, The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis, Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society, and Observing Bioethics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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