Community leaders are not waiting on Washington DC to fix their health and healthcare problems. Many leaders are making great strides to improve the health of local citizens through collaboration. Several communities, like Buncombe County, North Carolina, are providing every resident with access to health care. Others, like Pittsburgh, have cut the death rate among infants in half. Still others, like rural communities in Montana, have come together to stem new drug abuse threats like methamphetamine.
Such good news never grows old. It fills us with optimism. Best of all, it can inspire us to take action ourselves.
For the first time a practical, easy to use 'library' of best practices has been developed. Dozens of real case studies have been catalogued and formatted to highlight critical success factors and source leaders to financial and intellectual resources necessary for success.