Leading Your Healthcare Organization Through a Merger or Acquisition

Are you facing or contemplating a merger or an acquisition? This book will help you ask the right questions during premerger discussions and provide direction once merger planning starts.

Leading Your Healthcare Organization Through a Merger or Acquisition provides a thorough overview of the common issues that arise when organizations are combined. The book offers insights from experts in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including cultural compatibility, strategic growth and competition, change management, board and leadership roles and responsibilities, and service line reconfiguration. Checklists and other tools are provided to help you assess potential partnerships and the benefits that may be realized through a merger or an acquisition.

Topics covered include: Benefits and challenges of mergers and acquisitions
Cultural alignment between separate and distinct organizations
Governance and leadership structure
Corporate and operational design
The challenges and opportunities for affiliated physicians
Clinical and quality impacts and considerations
Financial advantages and expense reduction opportunities
Human resources, legal and regulatory, and other operational concerns