Outsourcing in health care has become increasingly common as health system
administrators seek to enhance profitability and efficiency while maintaining clinical …

This article considers what private equity's (PE) growing interest in the healthcare industry
means for the geographies of healthcare provisioning in the United States. PE firms invest in …

We introduce evidence that for-profit long-term-care providers are associated with less
successful outcomes in coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak management. We introduce two …

On any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients in the United States has a health care–
associated infection (HAI) that the patient contracts as a direct result of his or her treatment …

Abstract Background Environmental Health Service employees (EVS) sanitize healthcare
facilities and are critical to preventing infection, but are under‐resourced during the COVID …

Even before the word pandemic reentered the lexicon, pressures stemming from institutional
and technological change challenged policymakers and provider organizations to rethink …

Investing in Our First Line of Defense: Environmental Services Workers | Annals of Internal
Medicine Advertisement ACP Online Annals of Internal Medicine Annals of Internal Medicine …

We analyze the impact of outsourcing on the well‐being of internal call center employees in
the US telecommunications industry. Our findings draw on mixed‐methods data. The …

In many developing countries, lower-level employees are working in workplaces that pay
them poverty wages. The need for workers to earn a living wage has long been argued, both …

Based on the case of a Belgian meat processing company that relies on posted workers
employed by two subcontractors, this study investigates how posting affects client capital's …