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Author Swazey, Judith P

Title Merger Games : the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the Rise and Fall of the Allegheny Healthcare System
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (325 pages)
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue. "Honoring the Past, Creating the Future"; Part I: Let the Games Begin; Part II: Merger Landscapes; Part III: Merger Games; Part IV: End Games; Appendix: The Players: People and Organizations; References; Index
Summary With deepening financial problems, Allegheny Heath, Education and Research Foundation filed for bankruptcy in 1998 & mdash;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 medi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University.
SUBJECT Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University
Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University fast
Subject Medical colleges -- Pennsylvania -- History
Hospital mergers -- Pennsylvania -- History
Schools, Medical -- history
Health Facility Merger -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
MEDICAL -- Hospital Administration & Care.
Hospital mergers
Medical colleges
SUBJECT Pennsylvania
Subject Pennsylvania
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781439907191
1439907196