title: This skeptic thought she'd seen it all, but a revolutionary community initiative made her a ... true believer.
abstract: The board of the Fort Sanders Health System wanted to reach out and improve its community's health. As the largest provider in eastern Tennessee, the communities it served had dramatically different health problems. So they created community councils and put them to work planning for creative ways to respond to their own health needs.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D013714:Tennessee