Cleaning Up How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients

To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequence...

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Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [2013]
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Hospital care Contracting out British Columbia Vancouver
Hospital care British Columbia Vancouver Safety measures
Hospital housekeeping British Columbia Vancouver
Hospitals British Columbia Vancouver Employees
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