Heath Systems and Economic Development: Rising costs pose a different dilemma for local and regional economic development planning.  Is the health sector an issue to avoid or promote when seeking for or responding to potential new employers?   Can communities get a "handle" on what their local system costs and why?  How does the local system compare to competing regions? Can a community form a set of goals around their health care system that would be attractive to a potential employer?  See "Local Health Systems and Economic Development."

Unleashing Volunteer Resources in Health Care: Health care is full of "penny-wise, pound-foolish" relationships where timely preventive services can prevent increased acute costs later. The community bears the cost of preventable health services for persons who can't pay through higher taxes for public hospitals, or higher costs and private hospitals.  Programs in Indianapolis and in the State of Indiana have been initiated to address a piece of this problem through services provided by volunteers. See Relationships between local and state models and a "Logic Model" of  a local initiative.