Publications
Responding to the HIT Imperative: A Guide for Independent Hospitals
Independent hospitals and small health systems face a daunting challenge in developing their healthcare IT capabilities to meet the requirements of value-based care. But they must carefully weigh their options...
Read MoreAffiliations: Matching Objectives and Risks
Affiliations are contractual arrangements between two or more hospital partners in which they agree to work together on projects. No ownership or control is exchanged in affiliations; however, the term...
Read MoreThe Hospital Joint Venture Handbook
This joint venture handbook is based upon a series of articles that we began writing for The Governance Institute in the summer of 2014. One year later, many of the...
Read More3 Compensation Structures for a More Successful Transaction
Eighty-seven percent of hospitals are considering alignment with another hospital or system as a part of their overall strategic planning, according to Dixon Hughes Goodman. This interest is primarily attributed...
Read MoreThe Expanding Range of Strategic Alternatives in Hospital System M&A
The business of governing acute care health systems has become increasingly complex in recent years as board governance and industry structure have worked to keep up with the pace of...
Read MoreProtecting Corporate Value in Affiliation Transactions
Hospital leaders are increasingly interested in affiliations, or relationships with other healthcare organizations that do not involve ownership changes. Affiliations can take many forms, including management agreements, clinical affiliations, purchasing...
Read MoreDeveloping a Hospital Transaction Strategy and Process
Pursuing a transaction is among the most significant actions that a hospital board and management team can undertake in the life of an institution. It also is the riskiest. Economic...
Read MoreConsolidation in Commercial Banking Offers a Glimpse of Health Care’s Future
Payment reform poses a seemingly endless list of complex, interrelated questions. For the trustees and executives responsible for guiding their institutions through this unfamiliar terrain, the best answers to those...
Read MoreHospital M&A Transactions: A Focus on Retiring Liabilities
The volume of business combinations involving non-profit hospitals is at the highest level of the last decade. The macro-economic forces spurring industry consolidation and rationalization are weighing heavily on management...
Read MoreCurrent Trends in Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
Healthcare reform will result in more consolidation and integration among hospitals, reversing a recent trend in which hospitals tended to stay away from such transactions. Regardless of the ultimate fate of...
Read MoreConsolidation Transactions: Will They Make a Comeback?
The recent combination of two suburban Chicago hospitals represents the reappearance of a transaction structure that has been rarely used since the 1990s. Central DuPage Hospital and Delnor Hospital have...
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