Cleaning Up : How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients.
Zuberi, Dan.
Cleaning Up : How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (197 pages) - The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series . - The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "Stuff Gets Missed": An Introduction to a Growing Health Care Crisis -- 2. Germs, Blood, and Cost-Cutting: The Daily Struggle to Keep Hospitals Clean -- 3. Compromising Cleanliness: How Outsourcing Keeps Hospital Workers from Doing Their Jobs -- 4. Untrained Workers, Unfit Managers -- 5. Breaking Up the Team -- 6. Down and Out in Vancouver: Struggling, Stressed, and Exhausted Hospital Support Workers -- 7. Cleaning Up -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences of outsourcing hospital cleaning and food preparation from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality.
9780801469824
Hospital housekeeping -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Hospital care -- Contracting out -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Hospital care -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Safety measures.
Hospitals -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Employees.
Nosocomial infections -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Electronic books.
RA975.5.H6
362.110684
Cleaning Up : How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (197 pages) - The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series . - The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "Stuff Gets Missed": An Introduction to a Growing Health Care Crisis -- 2. Germs, Blood, and Cost-Cutting: The Daily Struggle to Keep Hospitals Clean -- 3. Compromising Cleanliness: How Outsourcing Keeps Hospital Workers from Doing Their Jobs -- 4. Untrained Workers, Unfit Managers -- 5. Breaking Up the Team -- 6. Down and Out in Vancouver: Struggling, Stressed, and Exhausted Hospital Support Workers -- 7. Cleaning Up -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences of outsourcing hospital cleaning and food preparation from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality.
9780801469824
Hospital housekeeping -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Hospital care -- Contracting out -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Hospital care -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Safety measures.
Hospitals -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Employees.
Nosocomial infections -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Electronic books.
RA975.5.H6
362.110684