Publisher's Synopsis
Survival Strategies: The Life, Death and Renaissance of a Canadian Teaching Hospital is a work of painstaking scholarship that documents an organization's struggle to survive over a period of 87 years. After illustrating its place in the Canadian health care system, the authors in this edited volume examine Wellesley Hospital's unique, community-focused transformation in the early 1990s. They then detail the Wellesley Central merger of 1995, the attempted alliance with Women's College Hospital, the public protest and legal campaigns to stave off closure by the Ontario Health Services Restructuring Commission, the bitter negotiations with and transfer of services to St. Michael's Hospital and the establishment of the Wellesley Central Health Corporation - a new champion for urban health in Toronto. The book is of interest not only to scholars and practitioners of organizational change and decision making, but also to historians, health lawyers, policy makers and anyone who cares about the future of health care in Canada and the health of urban communities.
