Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins

by John A. Kastor

Book Overview

What forces lead to changes in governance among medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals? To what extent do such changes affect how well those schools and hospitals do their work? In this book, John A. Kastor, M.D., focuses on the academic medical centers of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University, two institutions that underwent dramatic change in governance during the late 1990s.

Drawing on extensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874203
• ISBN13: 9780801874208
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.2"