The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #51440

Alan Sager, PhD and Deborah Socolar, MPH. Health Services Department, Health Reform Program, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, T3W, Boston, MA 02118, 617 638 4664, asager@bu.edu

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the causes of hospital closings
• Recognize methods of identifying which hospitals are needed
• Evaluate financial and political methods of stabilizing each needed hospital

Keywords: Access to Care, Hospitals

Related Web page: www.healthreformprogram.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: non
Disclosure not received
Relationship: Not Received.