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Managing partnerships: the perspective of a rural hospital cooperative.

While a dairy cooperative provided the bylaws, managing a cooperative of rural hospitals has been a learn-as-you-go experience. This article presents the management principles that have been learned over the last 13 years. Its experience suggests that developing and managing partnerships requires behaviors different from those typically associated with the management of individual organizations.

Cooperative Behavior↗

Getting the green light. How rural hospitals can form a cooperative.

As a result of a favorable ruling last fall by the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative (RWHC) is free to negotiate and administer HMO and other payer contracts on behalf of its members. This is a degree of provider collaboration that is desired but not previously seen as possible by many rural providers who are wary of possible antitrust sanctions.

Antitrust Laws↗