Research Catalog

Title

Mergers of teaching hospitals : in Boston, New York, and Northern California / John A. Kastor.

Author

Kastor, John A.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2001.

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Description

xii, 487 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California is important reading for professionals and academics interested in medicine, business, and organizational studies."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Mergers to Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California investigates the conditions that have led some of the nation's top teaching hospitals to merge with each other.
• The three case studies in this book describe mergers among some of the nation's best known hospitals: the Massachussetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals in Boston; the Presbyterian and New York hospitals in New York City; and the teaching hospitals of the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University. These famous hospitals are affiliated with five of the country's most respected medical schools, including those of Columbia, Cornell, and Harvard universities.".

Subjects

• Hospitals
• Multi-Institutional Systems
• Organization and Administration
• Hospitals, Teaching
• Organizational Case Studies
• Health Facility Merger
• Hospital Shared Services
• Multihospital systems > Case studies
• Hospitals > Shared services > Case studies
• Teaching hospitals > Administration > Case studies
• Hospital mergers > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-469) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Partners. Ch. 2. Formation. Ch. 3. Development -- Pt. 2. New York-Presbyterian. Ch. 4. Formation. Ch. 5. Development -- Pt. 3. UCSF Stanford. Ch. 6. Formation. Ch. 7. Development. Ch. 8. Conclusions.

ISBN

0472111965 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001027374

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Columbia University Libraries