Thread by @usnehal

Is happening in the spaces I least expected (but that shows how naive I often am) #FQHC & #safetynet. Read up on Hahnemann Hospital closing & sale of assets: land, residency.... yup Medicare funded residencies among “assets” #MedTwitter

@Health_Affairs
healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…

https://twitter.com/pjputh/status/1381257802832826380

“The bankruptcy affected the lives of more than 2,500 employees in the city and displaced more than 550 physician trainees. The hospital’s underserved, ethnically diverse patient population was left to redistribute their own care around the city” #MedTwitter #healthcare #Medicaid

“became the institution’s first and only female professor of emergency medicine...assumed a leadership role as the associate dean of graduate medical #education. In that role, I and my team were asked to identify opportunities to improve the tenuous financial situation” #MedEd

“Graduate medical education—the additional years of specialized training for physicians after medical school—is substantially funded by the US federal government.”

We are told this is why residency spots cannot be increased.

Why is #MedEd monetized by Wall St?

#MedTwitter

M&A in #healthcare is a BIG deal, including academic medical centers.

There are some massive power struggles happening in academic spaces well beyond just the usual petty academic gossip.

This was in 2017:

aamc.org/news-insights/…

#MedTwitter #MedEd