Collaboration to Improve Community Health: Trends and Alternative Models
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality ImprovementPublished 1 October 1998
Glen P. Mays, Paul K. Halverson, Arnold D. Kaluzny
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Longitudinal observations suggest that alliances evolve over time in response to changing community health needs and organizational objectives, as organizations develop arrangements to fit community needs, organizational capacities, and market conditions.
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The observed variation in alliance structures and functions appears healthy rather than problematic, as organizations develop arrangements to fit community needs, organizational capacities, and market conditions.
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