Creating health delivery systems. Interview by Donald E. Johnson.

Abstract

Coalitions between health care providers and employers that enable hospitals to focus on the important issues of the community will go a long way in controlling costs as well as answering questions of industry. In the following interview with Health Care Strategic Management's Donald E.L. Johnson, Samuel T. Wallace, president of St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a 520-bed institution that serves as a center for cancer, neonatal and heart services, describes a coalition concept that can help control costs while addressing the specific health care problems of local employees.