title: Managing partnerships: the perspective of a rural hospital cooperative.
abstract: While a dairy cooperative provided the bylaws, managing a cooperative of rural hospitals has been a learn-as-you-go experience. This article presents the management principles that have been learned over the last 13 years. Its experience suggests that developing and managing partnerships requires behaviors different from those typically associated with the management of individual organizations.
authors.affiliation: Rural Wisconsin Hospital Cooperative.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Size
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D014922:Wisconsin