Merger Games: The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the Rise and Fall of the Allegheny Healthcare System

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appendix the Players People and Organizations PEOPlE Sherif S. Abdelhak. president and CeO, Allegheny Health, education and research Foundation, 1986–June 1998. president, Allegheny university of the Health sciences, march 1994–February 1998. Richard Astro. provost, Drexel university, appointed provost of mCp-Hu, replacing leonard ross, when Drexel assumed management of the health sciences university. Barbara Atkinson, MD. Chairman, pathology Department, mCp-Hu school of medicine, 1994–1996. Annenberg dean, mCp-Hu school of medicine, 1996– 1999. J. David Barnes. Chairman, Finance and Audit Committee, AHerF Board of trustees. Former chairman, mellon Bank. Frank Cahouet. succeeded William snyder iii as chairman, AHerF Board of trustees, October 1998. Thomas Chakurda. vice president for Communications and spokesperson, AHerF. Maurice Clifford, MD. president, medical College of pennsylvania, 1980–1986. member, mCp-Hu school of medicine Board of trustees. D. Walter Cohen, DDS. president and CeO, medical College of pennsylvania, 1986– 1993. Joseph Dionisio. replaced David mcConnell as chief financial officer, AHerF; became CFO of AGH when sanzo resigned as AHerF president. Donald Faber, PhD. Chairman, Department of neuroanatomy, mCp-Hu school of medicine; cofounder and president, Committee for the university. Michael Fisher. Attorney general, Commonwealth of pennsylvania. Dwight Kasperbauer. executive vice president, Human resources, AHerF. Donald Kaye, MD. president and CeO, Allegheny university Hospitals–east; president , Allegheny university of the Health sciences, February–June 1998. Harvey levy. Chief operating officer, Allegheny university medical practices. 284 / Appendix Alfred Martinelli. Chairman, Hahnemann university Board of trustees, 1987–1993. member, Allegheny university of the Health sciences Board of trustees, 1993– 1998. David McConnell. executive vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer, AHerF; resigned June 1998; replaced by Joseph Dionisio. Bruce McCullough. Federal bankruptcy judge presiding over AHerF’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Dorothy McKenna Brown. member, AuHs Board of trustees; interim president, AuHs, 1998, replacing Donald Kaye. Charles Morrison. senior vice president, Finance, AHerF; chief financial officer and treasurer, Delaware valley Group; bankruptcy restructuring officer for AHerF. Constantine Papadakis. president, Drexel university. Iqbal Paroo. executive director, Hahnemann university Hospital and vice president for Health Affairs, Hahnemann university, 1984–1998; president, Hahnemann university, 1988–1993; president, mCp Hahnemann university (AuHs), 1993– 1994; chancellor, AuHs, 1994. lee Powar. lead bankruptcy attorney for AHerF. Joel Roslyn, MD. Chairman, Department of surgery, mCp-Hu school of medicine; cofounder and treasurer, Committee for the university (died July 1999). leonard H. Ross, PhD. executive vice president–president and Annenberg dean, medical College of pennsylvania, 1989–1994; dean, Hahnemann university school of medicine, 1993–1994; dean, mCp-Hu school of medicine, 1994–1996; provost, Allegheny university of the Health sciences and executive vice president and chief academic officer, AHerF, 1994–1998. Anthony Sanzo. Chief operating officer, Allegheny General Hospital, 1986–1990; president, Allegheny General Hospital, 1990–1998; president and CeO, AHerF, June–December 1998. William J. Scharffenberger. AHerF Chapter 11 trustee. William P. Snyder III. member, AHerF Board of trustees, 1954–1965; board chairman , 1965–October 1998. Nancy Wynstra. executive vice president and general counsel, AHerF, 1983–August 1998 (died January 2002). ORGANIZATIONS Allegheny General Hospital (AGH). AHerF’s flagship teaching hospital in pittsburgh. Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation (AHerF, Allegheny, Allegheny health care system). predecessor organizations: 1983. Allegheny Health services inc. (AHsi) was formed as a nonprofit corporation and parent holding company for two entities: (1) the Allegheny Health, education and research Corporation (AHerC), which had two main subsidiaries , Allegheny General Hospital and the Allegheny-singer research institute, and (2) the Allegheny Health Foundation (AHF), which was incorporated and organized concurrently with the formation of AHsi, with one principal subsidiary, the for-profit Diversified Health Group inc. 1986. AGH merged into AHerC, and the name for the combined entity became Allegheny General Hospital. AGH and its research arm, the Allegheny-singer research institute, were organized as controlled subsidiaries of the parent holding company, AHsi. 1991. AHsi is renamed Allegheny Health, education and research Foundation. Allegheny University of the Health Sciences (AuHs). the renamed mCp Hahnemann university, comprising the schools of Health sciences and Humanities, medicine, nursing, and public Health. Appendix / 285 Allegheny University Hospitals–East (AuH-east). A group of nine teaching and community hospitals: Hahnemann, mCp, st. Christopher’s, Graduate, City Avenue, Bucks County, elkins park, parkview, and rancocas. these hospitals, except rancocas in southern new Jersey, were purchased by tenet in AHerF’s bankruptcy auction. Allegheny University Hospitals–West (AuH-West). AGH and three community hospitals acquired in 1997: Allegheny valley, Canonsburg, and Forbes. Allegheny University Medical...