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The academic health center and the healthy community

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  • Naughton, J.
  • Vana, J.E.

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US medical care reflects the priorities and influence of academic health centers. This paper describes the leadership role assumed by one academic health center, the State University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and its eight affiliated hospitals, to serve its region by promoting shared governance in educating graduate physicians and in influencing the cost and quality of patient care. Cooperation among hospitals, health insurance payers, the business community, state government, and physicians helped establish priorities to meet community needs and reduce duplication of resources and services; to train more primary care physicians; to introduce shared governance into rural health care delivery; to develop a regional management information system; and to implement health policy. This approach, spearheaded by an academic health center without walls, may serve as a model for other academic health centers as they adapt to health care reform.

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  • Naughton, J. & Vana, J.E., 1994. "The academic health center and the healthy community," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 84(7), pages 1071-1076.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1994:84:7:1071-1076_6
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