title: Responding to a crisis: a stakeholder analysis of community health organizations.
abstract: On May 11, 2001, the Bureau of Primary Health Care notified West Alabama Health Services, doing business as Family HealthCare of Alabama, that it was terminating $6 million in grants due to non-compliance and amid allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud. West Alabama Health Services, a not-for-profit organization, operated 19 community health centers that provided preventive and primary care services for 17 counties in Alabama. This disruption of health services engendered considerable stakeholder debate. Within this context, the authors examine how a small, newly established rural health center and a well-established, federally qualified community health center responded to this crisis. The authors use a stakeholder analysis framework to highlight how key relationships with stakeholders may change with the perceived credibility of the organizational leaders and the legitimacy of their actions.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama, USA.
authors.forename: Grant T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Savage
authors.forename: Jeri W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Dunkin
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Ford
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting; D000407:Alabama; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005378:Financial Support; D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006075:Governing Board; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D006278:Medicare; D009939:Organizations, Nonprofit / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*