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Cleaning Up : How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801469824
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cleaning UpDDC classification:
  • 362.110684
LOC classification:
  • RA975.5.H6
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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