LINKAGE STRATEGIES OF RURAL HOSPITALS-INDEPENDENT HOSPITAL, LOCAL HEALTH SYSTEM, AND OR EXTERNALLY LINKED FACILITY/

Authors
GAMM LD KASSAB CD BRANNON SD FENNELL ML
Citation
Ld. Gamm et al., LINKAGE STRATEGIES OF RURAL HOSPITALS-INDEPENDENT HOSPITAL, LOCAL HEALTH SYSTEM, AND OR EXTERNALLY LINKED FACILITY/, Hospital & health services administration, 41(2), 1996, pp. 236-254
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Heath Policy & Services
Journal title
Hospital & health services administration → ACNP
ISSN journal
87503735
Volume
41
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
236 - 254
Database
ISI
SICI code
8750-3735(1996)41:2<236:LSORHH>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Strategies associated with ownership or management of a range of healt h service facilities, service sharing, and other coordination activiti es are important to the viability of many rural hospitals. This articl e articulates a set of linkage strategies employed by rural hospitals. Such strategies and their environmental and organizational correlates are assessed in a sample of 46 rural Pennsylvania hospitals.