Hospital Mergers - Why They Work, Why They Don't

Paperback: 208 pages
Dimensions: 6" x 9"
ISBN 1556483759
978-1556483752
AHA Press / American Hospital Association
August 2010
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Recommended by the American Hospital Association, Hospital Mergers identifies the core lessons and practical ideas learned from dozens of real-world merger experiences and applies them to the strategic and operational challenges facing senior executives and governing board members. It provides empirical and instructive insights on the factors and outcomes of mergers characterized by a change of management control, a legal merger, an acquisition, a joint operating agreement, a long-term lease, or a comprehensive joint venture.

Filled with case studies, stories, and conclusions based on a 15-year-long longitudinal analysis of mergers and reveals details on the immediate and longer term post-merger outcomes. It helps readers understand the reasons why the results were successful or not and presents an empirical roadmap of the many decisions involved in a merger from early strategic discussions to successful conclusion.

Hospital Mergers will help hospital executives and boards identify the questions and understandings behind a merger strategy that are essential for consensus among management, the board and other constituents, such as physicians, employees, and the community.

It can help readers navigate “deal breaker” leadership issues, like who will be the new CEO, who will sit on the new board, and who will be on the new senior management team and addresses a “soft” component of mergers such as organizational culture.

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. The Health Forum was created in the fall of 1998 through the union of The Healthcare Forum and the American Hospital Association's publishing and data and information subsidiaries.

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