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Study results demonstrated that in addition to essential health care services, rural hospitals provide jobs and income to local residents and their presence is an important factor in a municipality&#39;s ability to attract new residents, business enterprise and investment. <BR><BR>The studies analyzed impacts associated with: <BR><BR></P> <UL> <LI> <DIV align=left>The potential loss of jobs; </DIV> <LI> <DIV align=left>Direct economic impacts through the purchase of goods and services and payment of wages to hospital employees; </DIV> <LI> <DIV align=left>Induced economic or consumption impacts when wages paid to hospital employee and employees of suppliers are spent in the community creating additional employment and spending; and </DIV> <LI> <DIV align=left>Indirect economic impacts - businesses that would not exist without the presence of a hospital in the community, businesses that would not locate in a community that does not offer locally accessible, high quality primary health care to their employees, and the economic impact of businesses that buy from and sell to the hospital.</DIV></LI></UL> <P align=left><FONT color=#000000>Click </FONT><A href="Economic Impacts of Hospitals on Rural and Northern Economies.pdf" target=_blank><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>here</STRONG></A> to read the Executive Summary* (pdf document).<BR><BR><FONT color=#000000 size=1>*Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this document. It can be downloaded free of charge at: <A href="http://www.downloadadobe.net/?gclid=CNzvjZL_j4oCFSJNPgod6Vm0mw" target="resource window"><FONT color=#000000 size=1>http://www.downloadadobe.net/?gclid=CNzvjZL_j4oCFSJNPgod6Vm0mw</FONT></A><BR><FONT size=1><BR></FONT><BR><STRONG><FONT face=verdana color=#000000 size=2>Co-operation &amp; Collaboration: Melding Tradition with Innovation</STRONG></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=verdana color=#000000 size=2>In this project <SPAN style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps"><STRONG>The Duffy Group</STRONG></SPAN>, <FONT face=verdana color=#000000 size=2>set out to: </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV align=left>Raise awareness of the co-operative (co-op) model as an alternative to the traditional methods of inter-organizational arrangements; </DIV> <LI> <DIV align=left>Demonstrate how the co-operative model supports and helps advance integration and health reform; and </DIV> <LI> <DIV align=left>Learn more about best practices in interagency collaboration. </DIV></LI></UL> <P><FONT face=verdana color=#000000 size=2></P> <UL> <LI> <DIV align=left>Part A is devoted to a general examination of the co-op model and profiles of four health co-ops; and</DIV> <LI> <DIV align=left>Part B focuses on defining and describing collaboration, the key elements and success tips that make collaboration work, and evaluation in the collaborative context.</DIV></LI></UL> <P><FONT face=verdana color=#000000 size=2>Key findings are presented in a series of fact sheets, success tips and examples of best practice in a tools and templates format from which interested readers can choose. Numerous hyperlinks have been provided to facilitate browsing.<BR><BR></P><O:P></O:P></SPAN> <P><FONT face=verdana color=#000000 size=2>Click <A href="Executive Summary Co-operation Collaboration.pdf" target=_blank><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>here</STRONG></A> to read the Executive Summary* (pdf document).&nbsp;<BR><FONT face=Verdana size=1><BR>*Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this document. 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