title: There's no place like home.
abstract: When the school system in tiny Colby, Kans., signed onto a health plan that excluded the only hospital in the entire county, its citizens learned an important lesson. ¿If we're not working together,¿ says the hospital's administrator, ¿health plans and medical centers are going to come in here and take business away from us.¿ Here's what they learned about keeping rural health care rural.
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authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006286:Health Planning Councils; D006743:Hospital Bed Capacity, under 100; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D007615:Kansas; D010934:Planning Techniques; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*