title: Michigan hospitals: helping where there's need.
abstract: The MHA received 24 nominations for the 1997 Ludwig Community Benefit Award, representing programs that range from addressing youth violence and teen pregnancy to multifaceted approaches to improve a community's overall health status. Five programs were chosen to receive Ludwig Awards this year, each of them representing an impressive collaborative effort to improve life in the communities they serve. A brief synopsis of each of these outstanding programs follows.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dicks
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000592:standards*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000592:standards*; D008824:Michigan; D012954:Societies, Hospital