This paper addresses the impact of PPS legislation on hospital capital through an event study on the stock returns of publicly traded hospital companies. This paper focuses on the effect of PPS over time and uses qualitative data to supplement the empirical evidence. Both before and after the...

In this paper, we argue that the opportunities created from the recent transformational change in the health care industry have provided the environment for entrepreneurship to thrive. As a result, new and innovative organizational forms have flourished particularly when embedded in communities...

The major objective of this research is to examine and characterize service delivery systems for persons with mental illness in a resource scarce environment, i.e. a rural area characterized by persistent poverty and disadvantaged poulations. Although a number of studies have investigated the...

There are approximately 120 academic health centers (AHC) in the U.S. today whose mission is to deliver critical, tertiary care while also providing graduate medical education and conducting cutting-edge medical research. This traditional mission is overlaid by the social mission or the...