The New Healthcare Reality Accelerates Hospital M&As, Partnerships

Complex government regulations and a host of market challenges are driving healthcare organizations to grow bigger networks through smart, innovative, and nontraditional collaborations. Hospitals are jumping off the sidelines and into more proactive roles to strengthen care delivery, add missing competencies, and position their organizations for population health management as they face daunting government mandates, reimbursement penalties, new technology requirements, and narrow networks, to name just a few pressures.