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- Title
Community Perceptions of Hospitals and Shared Physical Space: A Qualitative Study.
- Authors
Skinner, Daniel; Franz, Berkeley; Kelleher, Kelly; Penfold, Robert
- Abstract
In addition to providing critical medical services to communities, hospitals are also forces of broader change when seen from the perspective of neighborhood development. Over the past few decades the obligation on the part of U.S. nonprofit hospitals to positively impact the communities in which they are located has become entrenched in both U.S. tax law and the practices of many hospitals. This article presents findings from a grounded theory qualitative study of the relationship between a non-profit children's hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and the neighborhood in which it is located. Based on in-depth interviews with local residents and community leaders, findings suggest that community members often interpret distance, safety, and transportation in different, and often counter-intuitive ways. Drawing upon literature from medical geography and sociology, the authors argue that hospitals may benefit from working closely with community members to determine how space is understood and constructed when planning community health interventions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COMMUNITIES; TAX laws; COMMUNITY leadership; HOSPITALS; SOCIOLOGY; CHILDREN'S hospitals; GROUNDED theory; HEALTH services accessibility; NEEDS assessment; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN hospitals; CITY dwellers; QUALITATIVE research
- Publication
Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 2018, Vol 42, Issue 1, p131
- ISSN
0165-005X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11013-017-9546-7