Publications

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...

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...

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...