Title: The Curious Case of the Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital: And Other Controversies in Psychiatry
Author: Anthony M D’Agostino, MD
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-0990439011
Pages: 252
Genre: Medical
Synopsis
This book is a history of psychiatry and medicine in the context of the evolution of managed care over the last forty years. The Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospitals rise to the seventh largest psychiatric corporation (as of 2016) in the USA is reviewed in relation to those changes in funding and clinical practice.
About the Author
Anthony D’Agostino, MD has served a Chief Medical Officer for Illinois-based Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates and Chair for the Department of Psychiatry at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village from 1979 to 2011. He completed his medical degree at the University of Illinois (UIC), interned at Los Angeles Country General Hospital, and did residency training in psychiatry at UIC, the University of California (UCLA) and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Dr. D’Agostino is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, where he served as the Illinois representative for the Assembly and as a Vice Chair of their Managed Care Committee from 1996-2002. He is also Past President of the Illinois Psychiatric Society (1986-1987) where he also served on the Health Insurance and Ethics committees for nearly two decades. He has also served as a consultant for the Hospital Licensing Branch of the Illinois Department of Public Health (1978-1986).
