title: Patience & partnership. Health systems cultivate two ingredients to create healthier communities.
abstract: With most health care reform proposals calling for a reconfigured delivery system aimed at making health status improvements, the ability to form provider/community partnerships may become a core capability for providers in communities of all types. But a number of barriers must continually be faced, including lack of trust, crumbling infrastructures, scarcity of funding, cultural issues, and others. A look at the "hows" and "whys" behind this crucial area for provider initiatives.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lumsdon
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006304:Health Status; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012940:Social Problems; D014481:United States