Date of Award

Summer 1984

Document Type

Thesis

Department

School of Public Service

Program/Concentration

Public Administration

Committee Director

Wolfgang Pindur

Committee Member

Charles Combs

Committee Member

James Clay Thompson

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.P83G74

Abstract

Leigh Memorial Hospital, a small private community care hospital merged with Norfolk General Hospital in 1972 to form an innovative health care corporation in Tidewater Virginia. By deciding to merge and alter its organizational identity, the Leigh Memorial Hospital leadership reversed a previous decision to relocate to the downtown Norfolk Medical Center complex, choosing instead to move to within a few yards of the neighboring city of Virginia Beach. Those two decisions and the story behind them are part of a complex, highly interdependent series of decisions which altered the health care delivery system in Tidewater Virginia.

This study is the story of those organizational actions and decisions and their repercussions. The primary focus of the study is to demonstrate how local health care organizations thwarted a nationally conceived and implemented policy to rationalize the nation's health care delivery system.

This 1s a story about decisions made by individuals within a group of highly interdependent organizations in conflict. It is a story of how those decisions defeated national policy and directed the health care system of Tidewater on a course which it may be very difficult, if not impossible, to alter.

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DOI

10.25777/kby1-p136

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