title: Taking benefits for granted. Community benefits and market-driven health care.
abstract: No one used to question the value of hospitals to their communities. Hospitals simply took good care of the residents of the cities in which they were located. They did the little things that endear an institution to its neighbors. Perhaps this was a luxury of hardier economic times, when the pressure to control health care costs was not so pronounced. Perhaps everyone took for granted the many benefits hospitals provide for communities.
authors.affiliation: Public Sector Consultants, Inc., Lansing, MI, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pratt
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Baragar
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000592:standards*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000592:standards; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000592:standards*; D008824:Michigan; D012945:Social Values; D019464:Tax Exemption