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

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Description for Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients Paperback. Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: MBPM; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.

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 consequences of outsourcing from two perspectives: its impact on patient safety and its role in increasing socioeconomic inequality. Drawing on years of field research in Vancouver, Canada as well as data from hospitals in the U.S. and Europe, he argues that outsourcing has been disastrous for the cleanliness of hospitals—leading to an increased risk ... Read more

Zuberi’s interviews with the low-wage workers who keep hospitals running uncover claims of exposure to near-constant risk of injury and illness. Many report serious concerns about the quality of the work due to understaffing, high turnover, poor training and experience, inadequate cleaning supplies, and on-the-job injuries. Zuberi also presents policy recommendations for improving patient safety by reducing the risk of hospital-acquired infection and ameliorating the work conditions and quality of life of hospital support workers. He makes the case that hospital outsourcing exemplifies the trend towards "low-road" service-sector jobs that threatens to undermine society’s social health, as well as the physical health and well-being of patients in health care settings globally.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801478963
SKU
V9780801478963
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Dan Zuberi
Dan Zuberi is Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada, also from Cornell.

Reviews for Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients
Cleaning Up affords its readers crucial insight into the healthcare industry, closely examining thesocial and economic costs of profit-driven healthcare. Healthcare policy affects so many people:workers, patients, and all of their families. Zuberi succeeds in proving his point: it is time to take actionto improve our healthcare system.
Michelle A. Dressner
Monthly Labor Review
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