Tenet/Community Health battle brings host of troubles
My oh my. Don’t we have a pretty enough dustup going on here without the need for more schaudenfreude? Apparently not. As most of you know, Community Health Systems (CYH) made a $3.3 billion hostile...
View ArticleHospital merger mania on the rise across the U.S.
As I reported a few days ago, hospital mergers and acquisitions hit a historic high last year. This is shaping up to be a pretty frenzied year for hospital M&A as well. In fact, this may be the...
View ArticleFTC: This Merger Looks So Good, It Has To Be Illegal
If you’re as cynical as I am, it’s not hard to take a certain amusement in the goings-on in Toledo over the merger between an aggressive for-profit hospital chain and a suburban not-for-profit. Over...
View ArticleAdding mini-hospital resolves clash between religious, secular facilities
As secular, for-profit hospital chains merge with rule-bound religious facilities, patients are facing restrictions on their care that they hadn’t faced before. While for-profit hospitals will perform...
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