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M Lesparre

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PubMed1998

A century of the AHA.

From the first meeting in 1899, the AHA's mission has focused on the interests of patients and communities. "The hospital is an institution in which the patient comes first," declared Cincinnati Hospital superintendent John Fehrenbatch, AHA president in 1903. "His interests and welfare are paramount."

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PubMed1987

Competition or conscience? Mixed-mission dilemmas of the voluntary hospital.

Voluntary hospitals must develop increasingly businesslike strategies to survive in today's market-driven health care system. While challenging and necessary, this behavior is stirring fears that the time-honored mission of these hospitals will be seriously undermined. Noting that the voluntary tradition leavens the competitive marketplace, the authors suggest that we have much to lose if voluntary not-for-profit hospitals no longer play a leading role in the health care system, including: needed services to all classes of patients, paying and nonpaying; an important locus of community expressions of compassion and charity; and the settings that have inspired the vision of what medicine and health care can accomplish for mankind.

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