title: Managing rural health care reform.
abstract: Rural health care requires a response system that is unique and substantially different from other, more traditional systems of health care delivery. Any reform of the present rural health care system must offer services that include the public health sector as well as other aspects of the social "safety net." The authors present a vivid picture of the multiple realities operating in the rural environment, and they explore the opportunity for the creation of Accountable Health Plans suitable for the rural health care delivery mechanism.
authors.affiliation: MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44109, USA.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: McEachern
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Neuhauser
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miles
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bingham
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D018854:Managed Competition / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States