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Rural Health Care
Networks: Forms and Functions summarizes the results of a national survey of rural
health networks conducted during the winter of 1996. The rural health networks
surveyed share two common traits: they exhibit the attributes of formal rural health
networks and their membership includes at least one rural hospital. Rural health
networks are defined as a formal organizational arrangement among rural health care
providers (and possibly insurers and social service providers) that uses the resources of
more than one existing organization and specifies the objectives and methods by which
various collaborative functions will be achieved. This 55-page chartbook is divided
into six chapters: Chapter 1 - introduction; Chapter 2 - Members and
Relationships: The Structure of the network; Chapter 3 - Governance and Management:
Organizing the Network; Chapter 4 - Fuctions and Services; The Business of the Network;
Chapter 5 - Public Policy and Network Development, and Chapter 6 - Conclusions and
Recommendations. There is also an Appendix in which additional information is
presented in tables and graphs. This chartbook is the second in a series of
products, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, that monitors the
transformation of rural health care delivery and financing in the United States in the
1990s. Single copies of the chartbook are available on request.
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