Health Care Reform—The Impact on Academic Health Centers: An Academic Health Center Executive’s Perspective
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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 perspective of an academic health center.
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