The For-Profit Healthcare Revolution: The Growing Impact of Investor-Owned Health Systems in America

From coast to coast corporate chains are investing billions of dollars to buy hospitals that will be linked together into giant networks of healthcare providers. Like independent video stores, restaurants, and newspapers, hospitals are being acquired by large Wall Street-backed corporations.
The For-Profit Healthcare Revolution: The Growing Impact of Investor-Owned Health Systems is a ground-breaking book that details both the history and philosophy underlying the investor-owned systems. The highly readable text not only chronicles the meteoric rise of the pioneer proprietary hospital chains; it provides a timely review of the activities and attitude of the current healthcare moguls who are leading the charge on market-based reform. The content of this book is relevant to everyone who deals in the healthcare milieu - including physicians, suppliers, consultants, investors and, of course, the leaders who work in hospitals and healthcare settings.
This book offers not only historical background but provides commentary and perspective from the key players who experienced the first wave of proprietary prominence, and who are now witnessing the unbelievable impact of the second wave.
As a practical reference, this book offers case studies on individual hospitals that have faced the decision to accept or reject overtures from these formidable firms. Notably, the executive from each of the hospitals reviewed in this section have valuable insight and recommendations to offer other hospital and physician leaders who must deal with the rapidly increasing influence of the investor-owned sector.