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Book SynopsisThe story of one of the most public failures in healthcare consolidation
Trade Review"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
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 References
