The Hospital: Life, Demise, and {Dollars} in a Small American City

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“From the C-suite’s tension-filled strategic planning conferences to life-or-death moments on the bedside, Alexander nimbly and grippingly interprets the byzantine world of American well being care right into a real-life narrative with individuals you come to care about.” ―New York Occasions

“Takes readers into the world of the American medical business in a approach no e-book has performed earlier than….particulars how we’ve created the dilemma we’re in.” ―Fortune

“Together with his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America’s deep-rooted illness and despair by immersing us within the lives of a small city hospital and the individuals it serves.” ―Beth Macy, bestselling writer of Dopesick

By following the wrestle for survival of 1 small-town hospital, and the sufferers who stroll, or are carried, by its doorways, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical business in a approach no e-book has performed earlier than. Individuals are dying sooner, and dwelling in poorer well being. Alexander argues that no plan will remedy America’s well being disaster till the deeper causes of that disaster are addressed.

Bryan, Ohio’s hospital, is dropping cash, making it weak to huge well being techniques looking for domination and Phil Ennen, CEO, has been preventing to protect its independence. In the meantime, Bryan, a city of 8,500 individuals in Ohio’s northwest nook, remains to be making an attempt to recuperate from the Nice Recession. As native leaders wrestle to handle the city’s issues, and the hospital fights for its life amid a quickly consolidating medical and hospital business, a 39-year-old diabetic actually fights for his limbs, and a 55-year-old contractor lies dying within the emergency room. With these and different tales, Alexander strips away the wonkiness of coverage to disclose Individuals’ wrestle for well being towards a strong system that’s stacked towards them, however but so fragile it blows aside when the pandemic hits. Culminating with COVID-19, this e-book provides a blueprint for the way we created the disaster we’re in.