A specific model of physician-hospital organization (PHO) whose managed care plan (MCP) is emerging as an alternative to the typical health maintenance organization (HMO). To the extent that groups and members of the community work with the hospital and physicians in a collaborative effort to create the plan, it is better called a “community health plan/’ The model was developed by Richard Ya Deau, MD, in 1984. HHPs are established with the assistance of Hospital Health Plan Corporation (HHPC).