Hospital and Practice Plan Relationships
In the 1990s economic pressures caused GW to sell an 80% interest in its teaching hospital to Universal Health Services, who rationalized the hospital and its medical services along more profit-oriented lines. The school similarly initiated a reorganization aimed at improving the profitability of its various clinical departments, effectively setting them up as independent "fiefdoms" responsible for their own budgets with minimal support from the school itself.
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