Winning strategies: successfully changing directions in rural health care.
Despite record hospital closings in the 1980s and continuing dire statistics--56 Texas counties don't have hospitals--the rural health care crisis is not intractable. For some Texas hospitals, a combination of innovative strategies and grassroots determination has either reopened the doors or provided new services and a viable basis for future growth. Here are the stories of five such turnarounds.
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D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006743:Hospital Bed Capacity, under 100; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013781:Texas