Provider of last resort
Subtitle: the story of the closure of Philadelphia General Hospital
By: Donna Gentile O'Donnell.
Publisher: Camino Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Philadelphia General Hospital -- History.; Philadelphia General Hospital.; Public hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.; Hospital closures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.; Poor -- Medical care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.; Health Facility Closure -- history -- Philadelphia.; Health Facility Closure -- history -- United States.; Hospitals, Municipal -- history -- Philadelphia.; Hospitals, Municipal -- history -- United States.; Financing, Government -- Philadelphia.; Financing, Government -- United States.; Health Services Accessibility -- economics -- Philadelphia.; Health Services Accessibility -- economics -- United States.; Medical Indigency -- Philadelphia.; Medical Indigency -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ascent and aspiration : early development of public hospitals in America; title: Hill-Burton, Medicare, and Medicaid : the politics, policies and impact of federal health care expansion; title: The closure of PGH in context : twentieth-century trends in public hospitals; title: PGH : descent and demise; title: The closure : the beginning of the end; title: The decision and the aftermath; title: Analysis and discussion.