The future of the rural hospital: assessing the alternatives.
Rural hospitals have new opportunities to create health systems that mesh with their own limitations and potential. Trustees who see the provision of high quality health care as their ultimate responsibility (and not the maintenance of a building with beds) will help their hospitals successfully meet the health needs of rural America.
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