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(2) makes recommendations regarding capitalization 1 (3) reviews and makes recommendations regarding organization 1 Community/Rural/Urban Development 1 Health Economics and Policy 1 IRS 501(c)(3) or (4) organizations that rely on grants for the majority of their funding 1 This was a study of strategic alliances of rural health care provider organizations in the United States 1 and dividend policy 1 and governance structure. With regard to both the efficiencies associated with economies of scale and scope and the efficiencies in governance transaction costs 1 and have 1 and quality problems of rural health care can be reduced by better coordination and rationalization of the delivery system and that this coordination and rationalization can be achieved through strategic alliances of provider organizations. The study divided alliances into three types: cooperatives 1 any case favoring rural hospital cooperatives over tied networks must be based on avoiding a conflict in objectives and the effectiveness with which a cooperative can coordinate and enrich the rural health care delivery system in a region. All members must see clearly that local autonomy can only be achieved through cooperative efforts. It is a role that requires patience and allows the rural hospitals to lead the cooperative. The rural community hospital boards and managements need to learn empowerment and not dependence. 1 at least one urban hospital associated with them to help in achieving the scale and scope required to offer some specialized services. Therefore 1 consortia 1 efficiency 1 have been formed in the United States for the purpose of starting prepaid health plans or underwriting clinics in communities having trouble retaining a doctor. While rare today 1 legal structure 1 membership 1 not included in this study 1 pricing 1 scope 1 sources of funding 1 such coops were comparatively numerous in rural America during the 1930s because of a federal government facilitating loan program. The report of the findings: (1) reviews the activities and functions of these alliances and makes specific recommendations regarding activItIes that can and should be organized cooperatively 1 tertiary hospital. The cooperatives were described as self-help organizations 1 that are organized and led by a major urban 1 the tied networks were somewhat more efficient than were the cooperatives and consortia. The latter two need 1 tied networks 1 while the consortia and tied networks were other-help organizations. Consumer cooperatives 1 with an emphasis on cooperative societies or cooperative- like alliances. The underlying hypothesis was that the scale 1
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Carman, James M. 1
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University of California, Davis, Center for Cooperatives 1
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STRATEGIC ALLIANCES AMONG RURAL HOSPITALS
Carman, James M. - University of California, Davis, Center for Cooperatives - 1992
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