Stratus Healthcare is a collaborative partnership of hospitals, the largest of its kind in the Southeast, in central and south Georgia that has formed to create a network of hospitals, health care systems and physicians. Members of the Stratus Healthcare alliance will work together to exchange best practices, combine resources, develop coordinated information systems, reduce costs and manage the health of populations, providing the Federal healthcare reform will require that medical care be reimbursed based on a fee-for-value framework rather than the fee-for-service model used in the past.