Case #1176.0

Medicine and the Profit Motive: The Proposed Sale of McLean Hospital

Publication Date: January 01, 1992
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Abstract:
When a major for-profit US hospital corporation proposes to buy a prominent psychiatric hospital owned, at that point, by a non-profit hospital, the medical staff becomes alarmed.

Learning Objective:
A prominent medical school, whose relationship to the psychiatric hospital is crucial to its level of service and prestige, must decide whether the hospital's traditions will be compromised if it passes into private hands.

Other Details

Case Author:
Esther Scott
Faculty Lead:
James Honan
Pages (incl. exhibits):
10
Setting:
United States
Language:
English