4137.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral Session

Communities in the Wake of Public Hospitals Closures

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
Presider(s):Barry Skura, PhD
Panelist(s):Sam Baker, PhD
Judy Wessler, MA
Discussant(s):Sandra Opdycke, PhD
Organizer(s):Barry Skura, PhD
12:30 PMTwo 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

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA