Publications

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...