Bibliograph

Health care in crisis, hospitals, nurses, and the consequences of policy change, Theresa Morris

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Health care in crisis, hospitals, nurses, and the consequences of policy change, Theresa Morris

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Health care in crisis

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

995629579

Responsibility statement

Theresa Morris

Sub title

hospitals, nurses, and the consequences of policy change

Summary

More and more not-for-profit hospitals are becoming financially unstable and being acquired by large hospital systems. The effects range from not having necessary life-saving equipment to losing the most experienced nurses to better jobs at other hospitals. In Health Care in Crisis, Theresa Morris takes an in-depth look at how this unintended consequence of the Affordable Care Act plays out in a non-profit hospital’s obstetrical ward. Based on ethnographic observations of and in-depth interviews with obstetrical nurses and hospital administrators at a community, not-for-profit hospital in New England, Health Care in Crisis examines how nurses’ care of patients changed over the three-year period in which the Affordable Care Act was implemented, state Medicaid funds to hospitals were slashed, and hospitals were being acquired by a for-profit hospital system. Morris explains how the tumultuous political-economic changes have challenged obstetrical nurses, who are at the front lines of providing care for women during labor and birth. --, Provided by publisher

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