title: Linkage strategies of rural hospitals--independent hospital, local health system, and/or externally linked facility.
abstract: Strategies associated with ownership or management of a range of health service facilities, service sharing, and other coordination activities are important to the viability of many rural hospitals. This article articulates a set of linkage strategies employed by rural hospitals. Such strategies and their environmental and organizational correlates are assessed in a sample of 46 rural Pennsylvania hospitals.
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Policy Research, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA.
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Gamm
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Kassab
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Brannon
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Fennell
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009935:Organizational Affiliation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010067:Ownership / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012044:Regression Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires