How an academic health center and a community health center found common ground

Expanded community health center--academic medical center partnerships.

How a community-based organization and an academic health center are creating an effective partnership for training and service.

Community-academic partnerships in the training of doctors offer unique learning opportunities of great importance. Such partnerships can induce a paradigm shift such that physicians view community as a teaching resource and partner rather than as a passive recipient of services or solely as a placement site. The authors describe a model of a community-academic partnership in New York City, beg...

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...

In a Community Mental Health Center

Urban Community Mental Health Centers (CBECos),are faced with large case loads and, long waiting lists. Clionis,failihg the initial appointment represent a significant loss of staff time and resources to CMHCes. Despite the high rate of failed initial appointments reported, no studies have looked at means of reducing the failure.rate. In the current stUd4 ",88 subjects were assigned to.. one of...

Strategic Alliances Reinventing the Academic Health Center

Academic health centers have faced welldocumented internal and external challenges over the last decade, putting pressure on organizational leaders to develop new strategies to improve performance while simultaneously addressing employee morale, patient satisfaction, educational outcomes, and research growth. In the aftermath of a failed merger, new leaders of The Pennsylvania State University ...