4137.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| Public hospitals have been closed in various cities, either through merger with a voluntary hospital, or through outright closure. We will focus on current or past closures in Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, New York, and Columbia, South Carolina. We examine both the political aftermath and the health care aftermath. 1) What actions, if any, were taken to ensure that the people who depended on those hospitals would continue to have access to quality care? 2)How effective were those actions? 3) What was the longer term impact on access and quality? 4) What was the political impact -e.g., new alliances, lessons learned, political alientation? | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Barry Skura, PhD | ||||
| Sam Baker, PhD Judy Wessler, MA | ||||
| Sandra Opdycke, PhD | ||||
| Barry Skura, PhD | ||||
| Two years later: A public hospital merger with a Certificate of Public Advantage antitrust exemption Samuel L. Baker, PhD | ||||
| Sponsor: | Health Equity and Public Hospitals Caucus | |||
| Cosponsors: | Latino Caucus; Socialist Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Pharmacy, Social Work | |||