Health-care policy as urban policy: Hospitals and community development in the postindustrial city

Guian A. McKee

No 2010-10, Community Development Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: This paper seeks to explore urban hospital policy, its history, and, in particular, the contradictions, challenges, and opportunities that it poses for community development in U.S. cities. Are urban hospitals a largely overlooked resource for urban economic development that can provide a ladder of long-term upward mobility for impoverished inner-city communities? Or are urban hospitals an anchor that has been dropped into sand, and that may be swept away by the winds of the healthcare crisis that has begun to storm across the United States?

Keywords: Hospitals - Economic aspects; Health care reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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