Lakeland community hospital, inc seeks to improve the delivery of healthcare services in rural america by giving local healthcare organizations an alternative to for-profit hospital companies or tertiary health systems that view rural hospitals as referal sources and which are aggressively divesting or even closing distressed rural hospitals. lakeland community hospital, inc. has created a nonprofit healthcare system that focuses on stabilizing rural hospitals by providing them with rural healthcare management expertise and more efficient, low cost services that are traditionally only available through larger healthcare systems.