Achieving Success Through Community Leadership

Twenty-five practices that a hospital can use to advance its community health missions are identified and described. Practices are placed in seven categories that represent different strategies for visioning a healthy community, financing, education, personnel decisions, marketing, creating institutional structures, and developing processes that promote community health. Guidelines are based on research on six US hospitals. This work lacks a subject index. Weil is vice president of the Division of Research and Development of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)