Author : Judith P. Swazey
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439907177
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Book Synopsis Merger Games by : Judith P. Swazey
Download or read book Merger Games written by Judith P. Swazey and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With deepening financial problems, Allegheny Heath, Education and Research Foundation filed for bankruptcy in 1998—in the midst of its landmark merger of The Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. What resulted was another dire event in an escalating disaster. As civil and criminal investigations probed Allegheny's collapse, the survival of the medical school and other health sciences university schools, and the operation of the hospitals hung in the balance. Fortunately, a savior arrived in the form of Drexel University who used this opportunity to create its own medical school. Merger Games is Judith Swazey's gripping account of this historic transaction. Based on extraordinarily detailed first-hand research and continuous inside access to the developments, this book clearly delineates who the players were and what this merger means for the future of medical education and institutional healthcare. Merger Games is a definitive history of one of the most important academic medicine mergers in Philadelphia and the country, which happened at a time when medical care was becoming commodified in almost every state.