A religiously affiliated health care system in today's competitive market: a success story.
In today's competitive health care market, not-for-profit religiously affiliated health care systems face multiple challenges for survival. Their mission of providing for the effective and efficient delivery of quality health care and health-related services for the benefit of individuals, families, and society and a philosophy of maintaining a Christian emphasis in all endeavors conflicts with many of the current competitive themes in health care. The successful system profiled here is Evangelical Health Systems (EHS), a not-for-profit organization affiliated with the United Church of Christ.
D002641:Chicago; D002835:Christianity; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems