Oral history interview with Jo Ivey Boufford [electronic resource], 1992

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Background and education; tenure at Health and Hospitals Corporation [HHC] of New York City; concern with provision of medical care to inner city; relationhip of HCC and Edward I. Koch administration; efforts to revitalize New York's health care system: affiliation contracts with medical schools, medical schools' performance in public hospitals, Emergency Medical Service, growing emphasis on primary care; relationship with press and community activists; experience working in health care system in United Kingdom.

Subjects

• Boufford, Jo Ivey--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Koch, Ed, 1924-2013.
• New York (N.Y.). Mayor.
• Oral histories.
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Zane, Sharon, interviewee.