3413.0 Public Hospitals: Past, Present and Future

Monday, November 5, 2007: 4:30 PM
Oral
This session presents the views of experts on the decline of public hospitals and clinics and its effects on the care of the local disenfranchised population.
Session Objectives: This session’s objective is to increase audience members’ awarness of the history of funding reductions to public hospitals and clincs, the extent of those reductions, the forms they take, and the effects on the local populations.
Moderator:
Vivian Grace Valdmanis, PhD

4:30 PM
Public Hospitals, Past, Present, and Future
Dennis Paul Andrulis, PhD, MPH
     
4:50 PM
Closure of Philadelphia General Hospital: Politics and effects
David B. Smith, PhD
     
5:10 PM
Economics, politics, and patient care: Who is really being hurt?"
Simon Piller, MD
  
5:30 PM
Status of Charity Hospital in New Orleans 2 years after Katrina
James Moises, MD

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Organized by: Health Equity and Public Hospitals Caucus

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

See more of: Health Equity and Public Hospitals Caucus
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