Selling Teaching Hospitals and Practice Plans

John A. Kastor, M.D., a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is the former chief of the Cardiovascular Division at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and former chair of the Department of Medicine at Maryland. He is the author of Arrhythmias; Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California; Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins; and Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland, the last two published by Johns Hopkins.

Preface
1. Washington and Its Academic Medical Centers
2. George Washington University: Selling the Hospital
3. George Washington University: Separating the Practice Plan
4. George Washington University: Closing the HMO
5. George Washington University and Its Medical School
6. Georgetown University: Selling the Hospital
7. Georgetown University: Selling the Practice Plan
8. Georgetown University and Its Medical School
9. MedStar Health
10. Conclusions
Appendix A: Other Universities with Teaching Hospitals Owned by For-Profit Companies
Appendix B: Reducing Deficits and Increasing Surpluses in Private Medical Schools That Do Not Own Their Primary Teaching Hospitals
Appendix C: Interviewees
Notes
Index