No one was turned away : the role of public hospitals in New York City since 1900 / Sandra Opdycke.

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Opdycke, Sandra

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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1423760719
9781423760719
9780195119503
0195119509
0195140591
9780195140590
9780198028086
0198028083
1280655208
9781280655203
0195349814
9780195349818
9786610655205
6610655200

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No one was turned away.DDC classification:

362.1/1/09747109049 22

LOC classification:

RA982.N49 O63 1999eb

NLM classification:

1999 C-574
WX 27 AN7

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Contents:

New Century, New Start: 1900-1910 -- Maintaining the Mission: 1910-1930 -- Help in Time of Trouble: 1930-1950 -- Many Voices, Many Claims: 1950-1965 -- The Limits of Reform: 1965-1970 -- Holding the Fort: After 1970.

Summary: No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City. At a time when less and less value seems to be placed on public institutions, argues author Sandra Opdycke, it is both useful and prudent to consider what this particular set of public institutions has meant to this particular city over the last hundred years, and to ponder what its loss might mean as well. Opdycke suggests that if these public hospitals close or convert to private management - as is currently being discussed - then a vital element of the civic life of New York City will be irretrievably lost.Summary: The story is told primarily through the history of Bellevue Hospital, the largest public hospital in the city and the oldest in the nation. Following Bellevue through the twentieth century, Opdycke meticulously charts the fluctuating fortunes of the city's public hospital system and how medical technology, urban politics, changing immigration patterns, economic booms and busts, labor unions, health insurance, Medicaid, and managed care have interacted to shape both the social and professional environments of New York's public hospitals. Bellevue now faces financial and political pressures so acute that its very future is in doubt.Summary: Opdycke's book maintains that public hospitals will be as essential in the future as they have been in the past. This is a thoughtful and well-written study that will appeal to anyone interested in the history of medicine, public policy, urban affairs, or the City of New York.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index.

No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City. At a time when less and less value seems to be placed on public institutions, argues author Sandra Opdycke, it is both useful and prudent to consider what this particular set of public institutions has meant to this particular city over the last hundred years, and to ponder what its loss might mean as well. Opdycke suggests that if these public hospitals close or convert to private management - as is currently being discussed - then a vital element of the civic life of New York City will be irretrievably lost.

The story is told primarily through the history of Bellevue Hospital, the largest public hospital in the city and the oldest in the nation. Following Bellevue through the twentieth century, Opdycke meticulously charts the fluctuating fortunes of the city's public hospital system and how medical technology, urban politics, changing immigration patterns, economic booms and busts, labor unions, health insurance, Medicaid, and managed care have interacted to shape both the social and professional environments of New York's public hospitals. Bellevue now faces financial and political pressures so acute that its very future is in doubt.

Opdycke's book maintains that public hospitals will be as essential in the future as they have been in the past. This is a thoughtful and well-written study that will appeal to anyone interested in the history of medicine, public policy, urban affairs, or the City of New York.