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Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fact, they have occurred for at least 25 years. Until recently, nonprofits were employing this type of...

A joint venture between Duke University Health System and LifePoint Hospitals, Inc., Duke LifePoint, recently completed the acquisition of Marquette General Health System in Marquette, Michigan. This combination represents the...

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Joint Ventures between Non-Profit and Investor-Owned Hospitals: Uses and Future Applications James Burgdorfer wrote a paper for the Governance Institute exploring the practical features of “buyer joint venture”...

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...

Much has been written about the fiduciary responsibilities of hospital boards that are considering business combinations. Another important issue that has received less attention is leadership continuity throughout the transaction...

After years of flat activity, billions of dollars worth of hospital mergers and acquisitions are having a profound effect on the industry. Hospitals of all sizes are being wooed and...

When evaluating change-of-control transactions, hospital boards need to be cognizant not only of their fiduciary duties to the corporation, but also of how their decisions will impact the broader community....

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...

During the past year, a startlingly-large number of announced merger agreements were terminated. These transaction failures represent a phenomenon that has great significance for many non-profit boards and managements, however,...

Chances are that most non-profit hospital boards will be called upon to evaluate a merger/acquisition proposal at some point in the very near future. Healthcare reform is prompting hospitals across the country...

Juniper Advisory and McGuireWoods presented a webinar titled “The Impact of Healthcare Reform
on Hospital Consolidation” on September 16, 2010. Speakers included James E. Burgdorfer, principal of Juniper Advisory; Rex J....

Hospital boards are encouraged to form a  “strategic alignment” or similar committee to facilitate the governing board’s ability to evaluate the many business opportunities that will arise for  provider organizations...