Insights

Juniper’s James Burgdorfer was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article “Cash-Poor Governments Ditching Public Hospitals”, which was published on August 29, 2010. Faced with mounting debt and looming costs...

Economic and health policy experts seem to agree that healthcare delivery is a “market failure.” The U.S. spends much more on healthcare than countries with similar economies—16 percent of the...

Boards and managements of non-profit hospital companies are experiencing pressure to consider business combination transactions in light of the need for real consolidation of the industry. A whole-hospital joint venture...

During the current decade, CEOs of many large non-profit systems have reported that the hospital industry is confronted with major systemic issues that can best be addressed by industry consolidation....

This article is Part 2 of our series on the hospital merger market. Part 1 (October, 2007) discussed hospital industry dynamics that have led to many of the change-of-control (“merger...

During this decade, non-profit boards have been confronted increasingly with the potential for merger and change-of-control (“merger market”) transactions. There has been a dramatic increase in the need for non-profit...

Directors of healthcare organizations normally owe fiduciary duties to their shareholders or, in the case of nonprofits, to the charitable mission of the organization. As an organization descends to bankruptcy,...