Reconciling ethical and marketplace values in service program design.
Traditionally, the provision of hospital services has been based on a set of values very different from those associated with the free market process. Without denying the import of sound financial support and performance, the authors suggest that to maintain "legitimacy", hospitals must examine their values and the relevance of those values to the communities they serve.
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004465:Economic Competition; D004467:Economics; D004989:Ethics; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006761:Hospitals; D012945:Social Values