{"product_id":"merger-games-9781439907177","title":"Merger Games","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of one of the most public failures in healthcare consolidation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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\u0026amp;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","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039838863703,"sku":"9781439907177","price":40.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439907177.jpg?v=1750945012","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/merger-games-9781439907177","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}