title: Deals that went down the drain.
abstract: What's that sound you hear? It's another merger going down the drain. Most mergers begin with great fanfare over cutting costs and eliminating overlapping services, but many end with a terse press release saying only that the party's over. Here's how even the best deals can go bad.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lumsdon
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006075:Governing Board; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D017008:Negotiating; D015279:Organizational Culture; D014481:United States