Academic health centers on the front lines

On the front lines of health care.

Health Care Reform—The Impact on Academic Health Centers: An Academic Health Center Executive’s Perspective

Academic health centers operate simultaneously in the highly intellectual world of academia and the highly competitive world of health care delivery. As a result of this unique operating circumstance, health care reform will likely exert unique impacts on academic health centers relative to community hospitals and independent providers. This discussion focuses on health care reform from the per...

Academic health centers and health care reform.

There is increasing support for the proposition that academic health centers have a duty to accept broad responsibility for the health of their communities. The Health of the Public program has proposed that centers become directly involved in the social-political process as advocates for reform of the health care system. Such engagement raises important issues about the roles and responsibilit...

The Initial Effects of Tenncare on Academic Health Centers

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