A corporation, typically a nonprofit health-related corporation, which has been formed by a community in order to implement the Blue Indigo concept. As the concept develops, a few criteria must be met before a corporation can properly be called a Blue Indigo Corporation: (1) there must be collaborative effort between at least two local organizations, one of them a health care organization; but if there are only two organizations, only one of them should be a health care organization; (2) at least one of the organizations is not a governmental unit; (3) primary concern is health (rather than simply health care)—a Blue Indigo Corporation is not just a new kind of health care delivery system; (4) the organization must serve a defined population; (5) the corporation’s efforts may be directed at the solution of any problem which affects the health of the local population, and which the corporation wants to address; (6) goals should be set in such a manner that it is possible to measure their achievement; such measurement is incumbent upon the corporation; (7) physicians and hospitals must participate, but the decision making is in the hands of a governing body which is representative of all the sponsors—i.e., health care providers only provide input along with the other partners in the Blue Indigo process, most importantly, community leaders; (8) only rarely would a state-wide organization qualify for the Blue Indigo Corporation label; the essence of the concept is that the community served be small enough to have common problems and interests.