Chapter 11: Maintaining MD Anderson Culture Despite Growth and Financial Challenges in Healthcare
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Dr. Burke begins this Chapter by describing how the culture of MD Anderson has changed since 1988 when faculty easily had face-to-face relationships. He notes that many institutional values have been formalized as the institution shifted to multi-disciplinary care models and translational research.
He talks about the advantage of the MD Anderson system in which physicians are not compensated per procedure: this has been maintained a “clean way of providing care.”
He next talks about the “financial clarity” that Dr. Leon Leach [Oral History Interview] brought to the institution under Dr. John Mendelsohn.
He next talks about what makes MD Anderson unique: keeping the mission areas in balance has been part of institutional strategy.
Identifier
BurkeTW_02_20140318_C11
Publication Date
3-18-2014
Publisher
The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Topic Covered
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Institutional Change; Multi-disciplinary Approaches; Growth and/or Change; Controversy; The Business of MD Anderson; Institutional Mission and Values; MD Anderson Culture; Fiscal Realities in Healthcare; The Healthcare Industry; Understanding the Institution; The Institution and Finances
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Burke, Thomas W. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 11: Maintaining MD Anderson Culture Despite Growth and Financial Challenges in Healthcare" (2014). Interview Chapters. 927.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/927
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Open
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