Considering the politics of U.S. nonprofit hospitals in Italy’s health care crisis

15/11/2024, h. 11:00
Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, Edificio 12, Sala riunioni
Piattaforma Webex

Academic medical centers and affiliated universities have increasingly been centered in debates over the current state of U.S. urban development, health care provision, displacement, and the deeply racial and gendered division of labor in the service economy. Meanwhile, some large nonprofits facing this undesirable critical attention from local residents, researchers, and at times politicians, continue to expand internationally. Part of an ongoing study of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) entry into Italy’s public and private health care markets, this talk by Zoe Alexander (City University of New York) outlines findings from recent research on UPMC Salvator Mundi – or Rome’s “first international private hospital” – and ISMETT – the medical center’s joint venture in Palermo. Alexander will discuss the social and political conditions that lay the foundations for an American nonprofit hospital to expand for-profit operations in Italy, and the implications for Italy’s National Health Service.

Relatore

Zoe Alexander, City University of New York

Photo credits: hok.com

Responsabile

Davide Ponzini