Merger Games

The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the Rise and Fall of the Allegheny Healthcare System

Judith P. Swazey

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781439907191
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

With deepening financial problems, Allegheny Heath, Education and Research Foundation filed for bankruptcy in 1998—in the midst of its landmark merger of The Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. What resulted was another dire event in an escalating disaster. As civil and criminal investigations probed Allegheny's collapse, the survival of the medical school and other health sciences university schools, and the operation of the hospitals hung in the balance. Fortunately, a savior arrived in the form of Drexel University who used this opportunity to create its own medical school.

Merger Games  is Judith Swazey's gripping account of this historic transaction. Based on extraordinarily detailed first-hand research and continuous inside access to the developments, this book clearly delineates who the players were and what this merger means for the future of medical education and institutional healthcare.

Merger Games  is a definitive history of one of the most important academic medicine mergers in Philadelphia and the country, which happened at a time when medical care was becoming commodified in almost every state.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue. “Honoring the Past, Creating the Future”
• Part I: Let the Games Begin
• Part II: Merger Landscapes
• Part III: Merger Games
• Part IV: End Games
• Appendix: The Players: People and Organizations
• References
• Index