Enhancing the depth and breadth of healthcare services in communities: insights, innovations, and applications

Funding Article processing charges were funded by Willis-Knighton Health System. Availability of data and materials Not applicable. Authors’ contributions The author developed the submitted manuscript. Authors’ information SJO is a professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and a Scholar in the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has been a visiting professor in both the Master of International Health Management, Economics, and Policy program at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan. He has also taught at the King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He co-edited the book (with S. Robert Hernandez): Strategic Human Resources Management in Health Services Organizations, 3rd edition, published by Delmar Cengage Learning. Competing interests The author declares that he has no competing interests. Consent for publication Not applicable. Ethics approval and consent to participate Not applicable. About this supplement This article has been published as part of BMC Health Services Research Volume 17 Supplement 1, 2017: Enhancing the depth and breadth of healthcare services in communities: insights, innovations, and applications. The full contents of the supplement are available online at http://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-17-supplement-1. Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.