Mr. Speight will explain how the District of Columbia's Public Benefit Corporation came to be established in December 1996, and discuss his three years' experience with supporters, patients, critics, labor unions, and private non-profit health groups. How has the District's financial crisis impacted health care? What were the problems of integrating the public hospital, primary care clinics, and school health programs? What's in it for the consumers? Who wins? Who loses?
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will understand the multiple roles (as defenders, critics, lobbyists, allies, etc.) that stakeholder groups can play in regard to their public hospitals 2. Participants will recognize the similarities and differences in the experience of stakeholder groups and their public hospitals in three cities: New York, Washington, and Boston
Keywords: Public Hospitals, Advocacy
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.