Word: health
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Pollack arrived at the Med School and became an associate dean for Medical Care Planning, the idea of a community health program had already run through the Harvard discussion mill several times. As early as 1961, a committee working on plans for the new Affiliated Hospitals Center recommended that the Center incorporate some kind of new continuous-care pre-payment program as part of its responsibility to the community...
Most Med School officials say that Ebert did not leave Western Reserve because it was opposed to community-involvement health plans. The only evidence is circumstantial: Ebert came to Harvard, and after he became dean, the Med School's health plan finally came to life. Throughout 1965 and 1966, Pollack and others worked on the detailed planning necessary to develop the program. Talking with administrators, chiefs of staff, and insurance directors, the Harvard staff kept working on plans into 1967. Finally last November, Harvard University announced that its Medical School would operate the nation's first university-sponsored pre-paid...
...November, the details of the plan's administration were also laid out. The Health Plan was formally incorporated by Harvard University, and the plan's corporation is loaded with Harvard-linked people. The corporation--which Pollack says will provide only the "broadest overview" of the plan's operation--includes Dr. Ebert, President Pusey, Pollack, and Henry C. Meadow, another associate dean at the Med School...
...other members of the corporation retain the Harvard touch. They are John Dunlop, Wills Professor of Political Economy; Dr. Dana Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services; Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law; Dr. John C. Synder, dean of the school of Public Health; and Francis H. Burr, a member of the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
...light of the parochial make-up of its corporation, the members of the health plan's board of directors come as a surprise. Several of them have Harvard connections--like Dr. Sidney Lee, another associate Med School dean, and Dr. Alonzo Yerby, director of Harvard's interfaculty program on health and medical care, and even John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics...