Health Care Alliances and Conversions

The guide for decision makers, a how-to-do-it manual for every nonprofit hospital director in America. Our country's health care will be much improved if directors buy and read this book. ?Phillip L. Isenberg, of counsel with the firm of Hyde, Miller, Owen & Trost, former California State Assemblyman and author

Written by one of America's leading experts on health law and its tax ramifications, this treatise examines everything from obtaining and holding onto tax-exempt status, to the day-to-day tax issues faced by your clients. It also dispenses valuable practical guidance on such critical matters as: • For-profit versus not-for-profit hospitals

Praise for Partners in Health "The combination of visionary leadership, knowledge, and superb timing makes this book a winner. Health care is evolving toward collaboration and integration, and this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to change the relationships between hospitals and physicians." —Donald W. Fisher, PhD, president and

More than ever before, the legal system plays a vital role in virtually every aspect of the current health care system. From the congressional debate over patients' rights legislation to judicial rulings on the denial of health care services, the legal system is integrally involved in the organization, financing, and

Focusing on nonprofits' growing dependence on public funding, their tendency toward political polarization, their often idiosyncratic missions, and their increasing commercialism, Peter Frumkin argues that the long-term challenges facing nonprofit organizations will be solved only when they achieve greater balance among their four central functions. Probing foundational thinking as well