Playing To Our Strengths: Religious Hospitals and Community Health Status

by | Oct 27, 1994 | IHP Archive

Author:  Gary Gunderson

Date:  October 27, 1994

Location:  National Interfaith Healthcare Leadership Conference

Background:  Dr. Gunderson presented this paper in which he described the distinctive contribution of religious hospitals and laid out the ways in which the resources of those could be expanded beyond the boundaries of healthcare service delivery to address key social factors impacting public health. Drawing on the research of Dr. William Foege, Dr. Gunderson laid out the Five Gaps Strategy, which provided a framework for the efforts of the Interfaith Health Program to identify religious organizations at a community level and to understand their distinctive assets. That framework has informed IHP’s programmatic and research efforts in many ways to the present day.

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