title: Health care philanthropies: how communities can participate.
abstract: When a nonprofit hospital or health plan converts to for-profit status, the value of its assets endows a charitable foundation.  As a result, billions of health care dollars are being shifted into new philanthropic institutions with an explicit mission to "improve the health of the community."  But this issue of States of Health argues that mission can only be accomplished if consumers are involved significantly in the conversion process.
mesh_terms: D002608:Charities; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D014481:United States