title: How to communicate value.
abstract: Providing for the community's well-being by improving health status, increasing access to care, and holding down health care costs, once considered benchmarks to reach, are now compulsory requirements. The challenge to Michigan's hospitals is to quantify benefits and communicate their value in a meaningful and standardized manner.
authors.affiliation: MHA, Lansing, MI, USA. mhulteen@lans.mha.org
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hulteen
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003625:Data Collection; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D008824:Michigan; D012945:Social Values