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The UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC or UMass) case is an examination of the impact of crisis or high uncertainty events on organizations. As a global pandemic unfolds, the case examines the ways in which UMMHC manages crisis and poses questions around…

This case describes efforts to promote racial equity in healthcare financing from the perspective of one public health organization, Community Care Cooperative (C3). C3 is a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization–i.e., an organization set up to manage…

This case is about organizational change and technology. It follows the efforts of one physician as they try to move their department past using the pager, a device that persisted in American medicine despite having long been outdated by superior…

The case describes the challenges facing Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD, the newly appointed Chair of UMass Memorial Health Care’s Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Schaal had come to UMass in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the summer of 2016 from the University…

For more than 30 years, Dr. Joan Reede worked to increase the diversity of voices and viewpoints heard at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and at its affiliate teaching hospitals and institutes. Reede, HMS’s inaugural dean for Diversity and Community…

On February 1, 2020, Jessie Gaeta, the chief medical officer for Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), received news that a student in Boston had tested positive for the novel coronavirus virus that causes COVID-19 disease. Since…

In August of 2020, after a day treating patients, John McAdams, MD, gets ready to meet with a young couple from the community. He is excited to share the latest progress on his institution’s Cancer Treatment and Control Center, which is set to open in 3…

The Envision Healthcare (EVHC) case examines the operations of one of EVHC’s divisions, EmCare, a national physician services outsourcing company. The case describes EmCare’s controversial use of out-of-network billing for a significant share…

Insigne Health is a for-profit, integrated health insurer/health care provider whose leadership believes that by shifting members’ focus from “sickness” to “well-being” it could increase the overall health of its insured…

A deep sense of foreboding filled Dr. James O’Connell and his team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP) in October 2014. The Boston mayor’s office had just condemned the 64-year-old bridge that provided the only passage to the…