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Governance forms in health systems and health networks
Jeffrey A Alexander1, Shoou-Yih D Lee, Gloria J Bazzoli
1Department of Health Management and Policy, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. jalexand@umich.edu
Health Care Management Review
|August 28, 2003
Abstract:
Debates about the relative advantages of health systems versus more loosely structured health networks have largely ignored issues of how these different organizational forms are governed. Based on comparisons of two large samples of health systems and health networks, our findings indicate that the majority of both types of organized delivery systems have governing bodies separate from those of affiliate organizations, high proportional representation by affiliate organizations, and similar board size.