January 10, 2003

Case Western Reserve Heals Rift With Its Teaching Hospitals

Case Western Reserve University signed a 50-year agreement in December with the system that operates its teaching hospitals, bringing a close to contentious negotiations that prompted the university's president to resign in 2001.

The agreement, which took effect immediately, was approved unanimously by the boards of both Case Western and the University Hospitals Health System. It calls for a much closer working relationship between the medical school and the hospital system, the