title: The Lovelace Medical Center: strategies for advancing health care services in the southwest.
abstract: Organized in 1922, the Lovelace Clinic successfully provided health care services throughout the Southwest utilizing a group practice format under the aegis of a nonprofit foundation. In 1984, the Foundation contracted with Hospital Corporation of America to form a for-profit health care organization which allows the provision of high quality health care through a group practice professional corporation, a 238-bed inpatient facility, a 70,000-member health maintenance organization, and an independent research and education foundation.
mesh_terms: D005582:Foundations; D006075:Governing Board; D006268:Health Facilities; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D006770:Hospitals, Group Practice / Q000266:history*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009516:New Mexico; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D015206:Southwestern United States