Hospital Closures
The Sociospatial Restructuring of Labor and Health Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8376014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caitlin Henry (0000-0002-5775-1839, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1094-1110 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045608.2015.1059169 |
| OpenAlex | W1673850967 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 35 |
Since 2003, more than twenty hospitals in New York City have closed because of debt and a state-driven downsizing program. During this same time period, the labor market for nurses has tightened substantially, shifting from an overall nurse shortage since the 1980s to a job shortage since the mid-2000s. Drawing on an analysis of media and government publications on hospital closures since 2003 and interviews with nurses working in the metropolitan area, I argue that hospital closures and the new job shortage are intertwined. By pushing an austerity agenda in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, New York City and state government agencies as well as private health care institutions are actively restructuring—or “rightsizing”—the health care sector. Ultimately, this is a downsizing of care provisions by another name. Capitalism's continued devaluation of social reproduction manifests in New York City as a restructuring of the spaces and work of health care. Hospital closures are central to this restructuring that involves the mutually constituted transformations in the built environment, health care provisioning, and the nursing profession. In conclusion, this process risks making good health and good jobs less accessible
Austerity · Business · Debt · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Health care · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · State (computer science) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Finance · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Healthcare Systems and Challenges · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration
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Corporatisation and financialisation of social reproduction
Who controls the infrastructure of social reproduction? Finance, reproduction, and resistance in educational landscapes
Infrastructures of social reproduction
For feminist geographies of austerity
Social reproduction and capitalist production
Healthcare as asset
The Abstraction of Care
Ripping the Heart out of Ancoats
Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace
Medical gentrification and transposition
Financializing Healthcare and Infrastructures of Social Reproduction
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Driven to Debt
Palliative space-time
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Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People
Intimate Labors
Ordered to Care
Working Bodies
The Enigma of Capital
Time and the social reproduction of American health care
Introduction
Black Women in White
Functional Health Literacy and the Risk of Hospital Admission Among Medicare Managed Care Enrollees
Domesticating Birth in the Hospital
Black Women in White
Health Literacy and Preventive Health Care Use Among Medicare Enrollees in a Managed Care Organization
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Job Search and the Occupational Segregation of Women
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
Triangulating health
Neighborhood characteristics and hospital closures
Towards an Understanding of the Gender Division of Urban Space
The urban process under capitalism
Locating Globalization
A Dialogue with 'Global Care Chain' Analysis
Public and Private
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Access to Health Care
From Servitude to Service Work
| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |