CHAS Publication: George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs

Each year, from 1962 to 1990, the faculty of the Program in Hospital Administration of the University of Chicago and the Executive Council of the Alumni Association were charged with the task of choosing a subject relating to issues of current interest and importance to mangers of hospitals and health care institutions. This archive preserves the results of those important years.

• Where is Hospital Use Headed? Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1962.
• The Impact of Changing Medical Practice on Hospital Administration, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1963.
• Can Voluntary Controls Do the Job? Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1964.
• Applications of Studies in Health Administration, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1965.
• Hospital Size and Efficiency, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1966.
• Medical Care for Low Income Families, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1967. (Published as Volume 5, No. 1 of Inquiry, March 1968.)
• Physician Productivity and the Hospital, Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs. (Only selections published in Vol. 6, No. 3 of Inquiry, 1969.
• Urban Community Hospital in Transition, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1970.
• Health Maintenance Organizations: A Reconfiguration of the Health Services System, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1971.
• Public Control and Hospital Operations, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1972.
• The Hospital's Role in Assessing the Quality of Medical Care, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1973.
• Government Involvement in Health Services Delivery: The Canadian Experience, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1974.
• Ethical Issues in Health Care Management, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1975.
• Survival in Utopia (Growth Without Expansion), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1976.
• Organization for Ambulatory Care: a Critical Appraisal, Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1977.
• Creative Retrenchment, Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1978.
• Changing the Behavior of the Physician: A Management Perspective, Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1979.
• Managing for Growth and Future Expansion, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1980.
• Competition-Regulation and the HMO; Impact on Hospitals and Physicians, Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual George Bugbee on Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1981.
• Multi-Hospital Systems and the General Hospital, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1982.
• The Hospital and Cost Containment: Impact and Response, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1983.
• Whence and Whether Graduate Education for Managers in the Health Services, Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1984. Published as Part II of The Journal of Health Administration Education, AUPHA, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 1985.
• Selective Contracting, Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1985.
• Cost Containment and Physician Autonomy: Implications for Quality of Care, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1986.
• Does Diversification make Health Organizations Healthier? Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1987.
• Using Quality Measures in Health Care Management: Myths, Realities, and Possibilities, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1988.
• Who Profits from the Not-for-Profit Hospital--Is the Tax Exempt Status Justified? Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1989.
• Antitrust Intervention in the Health Care Industry, Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual George Bugbee Symposium on Hospital Affairs, 1990.