Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins

by John A. Kastor MD

What forces lead to changes in governance among medical schools and their associated teaching hospitals? To what extent do such changes affect how well those schools and hospitals do their work? In this book, John A. Kastor, M.D., focuses on the academic medical centers of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University, two institutions that underwent dramatic change in governance during the late 1990s. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than three hundred administrators, physicians, and other medical professionals at Penn, Hopkins, and elsewhere, Kastor identifies the factors that influenced changes in governance at these two institutions. Chief among these, he finds, are structure, personality conflicts, and current events. This book will be of interest to administrators of teaching hospitals as well as professionals in health policy and management.

368 pages, Hardcover

First published December 11, 2003

Reviews

[Beth A · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating book about governance in two major AHCs. I had to read this book as it was assigned reading for a task force I was on.