Hospital Literature

Last updated 7/2/02

	The hospital in rural and urban districts. Report of a WHO Study Group on the Functions of Hospitals at the First Referral Level.
	Teamwork helps rural hospital rise to the occasion.
	Need for advanced cardiac life-support training in rural, community hospitals.
	Why patients bypass rural health care centers.
	Saving rural health care: strategies and solutions (editorial)
	Strategic planning in rural health care organizations.
	The use of swing beds in rural hospitals.
	Community perceptions of rural hospital closure.
	An evaluation of a program to regualte rural hospital costs: the Finger Lakes Hospital Experimental Payment program.
	Rural hospitals closures. Determinanats of conversion to an alternative health care facility.
	The role of the rural hospital emergency department.
	Staffing in small rural hospital emergency rooms: dependence on community family physicians.
	Physician perspectives on the causes of rural hospital closure, 1980-1988.
	How state policy affects rural hospital consortia: the rural health care delivery system.
	Casualty encounters at a small rural hospital.
	Defining rural hospital markets.
	Rural hospital health promotion: programs, methods, resource limitations.
	Rural community hospitals and factors correlated with their risk of closing.
	Alternative delivery systems in rural areas.

Zismer DK, Hoffman DC. "A 10-Point Strategic Checklist for Rural Health Care Systems" The Journal of Rural Health. Vol 11. No. 1 pg.53-59. For more information, contact: David C. Hoffman, PhD, Principal, Parners Consulting Group Ltd., 1406 Business Highway 18-151 East, Mount Horeb, WI 53572

Illinois Hospital & HealthSystems Association "Transforming Health Care for The 21st Century: A Resource Manual for Rural Hospitals" The Rural Hospitals Transitional Model Initiative was established by the Illinois Hospital & HealthSystems Association Board of Trustees in September 1995 to assist rural members as they respond to pressures to move from the traditional acute care model toward new forms of care.