Collaboration services, namely, promoting the interests of collaborative hospitals to improve clinical quality of care, enhance access to healthcare, and provide a better value to consumers; promoting the goods and services of others through a collaborative program among hospitals; business operation, business administration and business office functions, namely, provision of back-office administrative services to collaborative hospitals either directly or through subsidiaries; administration of group purchasing program for collaborative hospitals, namely, negotiating contracts with providers of medical and healthcare equipment and supplies; and procurement, namely, purchasing of contracts for collaborative hospitals enabling collaborative hospitals for food products, collection services, employee benefit plans, medical and surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals, transcription services, and office supplies