Cleaning Up : How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients /

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"To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the conse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuberi, Dan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nosocomial infections.
Hospitals > Employees.
Hospital housekeeping.
Hospital care > Safety measures.
Hospital care > Contracting out.
Risk assessment.
MEDICAL > Hospital Administration & Care.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
risk assessment.
Évaluation du risque.
Hôpitaux > Aspect economique.
Infections nosocomiales.
Infections nosocomiales > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver.
Hôpitaux > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Personnel.
Soins hospitaliers > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Securite > Mesures.
Soins hospitaliers > Impartition > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver.
Hôpitaux (Édifices) > Entretien journalier > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver.
Risk Assessment
Patient Safety
Outsourced Services
Economics, Hospital
Cross Infection
Housekeeping, Hospital > organization & administration
Nosocomial infections > British Columbia > Vancouver.
Hospitals > British Columbia > Vancouver > Employees.
Hospital care > British Columbia > Vancouver > Safety measures.
Hospital care > Contracting out > British Columbia > Vancouver.
Hospital housekeeping > British Columbia > Vancouver.
British Columbia > Vancouver.
British Columbia
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Stuff gets missed" : an introduction to a growing health care crisis
  • Germs, blood, and cost-cutting : the daily struggle to keep hospitals clean
  • Compromising cleanliness : how outsourcing keeps hospital workers from doing their jobs
  • Untrained workers, unfit managers
  • Breaking up the team
  • Down and out in Vancouver : struggling, stressed, and exhausted hospital support workers
  • Cleaning up.

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