...Simone R. Singh; Gary J. Young; Lacey Loomer; Kristin Madison Abstract Do nonprofit hospitals provide enough community benefits to justify their tax exemptions? States have sought to enhance nonprofit hospitals' accountability and oversight through regulation, including requirements to report...

...Larry D. Gamm; Keith J. Benson This is a comparative analysis of hospitals’ efforts in three communities to pursue collaborative ventures to advance community health. The events occurred over a two-year period characterized by increasing market competition and national debate about comprehensive...

...Jason L. Powell Meredith Minkler, ed. Community Organizing and Community Building for Health . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. 418 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Books 1009...

...Gregory O. Ginn; Charles B. Moseley This study examined the effect of state community benefit laws and guidelines on the community health orientation and the provision of hospital-based health promotion services in hospitals. The sample included all not-for-profit and investor-owned acute-care...

...Richard J. Bogue; Mazda Antia; Rita Harmata; Claude H. Hall, Jr. In the United States, health system change occurs as the interaction of politics and policies is played out and pushed forward by individuals and organizations taking action in their local communities and markets. This article...

...Robert Newcomer; Juanita Wood; Andrea Sankar The switch to prospective payment for hospitals under Medicare is expected to have ramifications in a number of different areas. This paper addresses a select number of those areas: hospital organization and management, other community agencies...

... cost than that of other public facilities, they remained dependent on outside financial support. The viability of the community health care centers at the end of the grant period is discussed, in terms of the changes that have affected the health delivery system in the seven years since the program...

...Susan S. Laudicina; Brian Burwell This article presents the findings of a national survey of Medicaid home and community-based care waiver programs established under Section 2176 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981. The article documents the ways states have used their waiver authority...

...Gary J. Young; Kamal R. Desai; Fred J. Hellinger Traditional control of nonprofit hospitals by the communities they serve has been offered as justification for restraining antitrust enforcement of mergers that involve nonprofit hospitals. The community is arguably a constraint on a nonprofit's...

... the centennial anniversary of its founding, nurse leaders recognized systemic changes have required nurses to function in clinical,illness-oriented roles rather than in their more traditional community and public health roles. With nurses' public health skills atrophying, these leaders urged members...

...Richard Rumer This paper traces the development of theory and public awareness of mental health from 1900 to 1960, with particular stress on the rise of social psychiatric models and the impact of events in and around World War Two. The federal legislative history of the Community Mental Health...

...Gloria J. Bazzoli; Jan P. Clement; Hui-Min Hsieh The definition of hospital community benefits has been intensely debated for many years. Recently, consensus has developed about one group of activities being central to community benefits because of its focus on care for the poor and on needed...

..., consumers formed an organization which conducted a series of community forums to provide information and generate publicity about local health care issues, sponsored training workshops for consumer leaders and HSA board members, worked to delay the final designation of the agency, and organized to take...

... and reimbursement policies. Findings are presented with respect to the relative importance of these obstacles and options are developed for the reform of existing subsidy programs. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Financial Viability of Community Health Centers...

...Eleanor D. Kinney; Bonnie Lefkowitz Issues in current capital cost reimbursement to community hospitals by Medicare and Medicaid are described, and options for change analyzed. Major reforms in the way the federal government pays for capital costs—in particular substitution of other methods...

...H. Steven Moffic Sue E. Estroff, Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 328 pp., $19.95 Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 180 Journal of Health...

...David A. Rochefort In recent decades the community mental health movement has achieved a dramatic reduction in the census of state and county mental hospitals in the United States, and hundreds of federally-funded community mental health centers have been established nationwide. At the same time...

...David A. Rochefort Howard A. Palley and Julianne S. Oktay, The Chronically Limited Elderly: The Case for a National Policy for In-Home and Supportive Community-Based Services (New York: The Haworth Press, 1983), 142 pp., $19.95 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration...

...John Capitman Ronald L. Braithwaite and Sandra E. Taylor, Health Issues in the Black Community . San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1992. N.p., cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 274 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law To go further, one must ask the question...