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CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS................................................................v SPECIAL THANKS...................................................................xx INTRODUCTION..............................................................................xx CHAPTER I Ascent and Aspiration: Early Development of Public Hospitals in America.....................1 CHAPTER II Hill-Burton, Medicare, and Medicaid: The Politics, Policies and Impact of Federal Health Care Expansion..................................00 CHAPTER III The Closure of PGH in Context: Twentieth-Century Trends in Public Hospitals.........................................00 CHAPTER IV PGH: Descent and Demise................................00 CHAPTER V The Closure: The Beginning of the End..................................00 CHAPTER VI The Decision and the Aftermath..................00 CHAPTER VII Analysis and Discussion...............................00 APPENDIX A..................................................................................000 APPENDIX B..................................................................................000 APPENDIX C..................................................................................000 APPENDIX D..................................................................................000 BIBLIOGRAPHY..............................................................................000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Philadelphia General Hospital -- History.
Public hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Hospital closures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Poor -- Medical care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Philadelphia General Hospital.
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.