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Transforming America’s Hospitals : From Healing the Sick, to Building Healthy, Resilient Communities

Marydale DeBor

In the past decade, the rising costs of health care services, the obesity and chronic disease epidemic and the impact of social determinants on the health status of Americans have inspired a movement among hospitals to become more than walled venues that care for the acutely ill, to organizations that align all their considerable assets and economic power to build robust communities.