Provider of last resort : the story of the closure of Philadelphia General Hospital / Donna Gentile O'Donnell.

Philadelphia : Camino Books, [2005], ©2005.

xiv, 128 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-128).

Ascent and aspiration : early development of public hospitals in America -- Hill-Burton, Medicare, and Medicaid : the politics, policies and impact of federal health care expansion -- The closure of PGH in context : twentieth-century trends in public hospitals -- PGH : descent and demise -- The closure : the beginning of the end -- The decision and the aftermath -- Analysis and discussion.