title: Synthetic real estate: bringing corporate finance to health care.
abstract: The changing landscape of health care has caused hospitals, health care systems, and other health care organizations to look for ways to finance expansions and acquisitions without "tainting" their balance sheets. This search has led health care executives to a financing technique that has been already embraced by Fortune 500 companies for most of this decade and more recently adopted by high-tech companies: synthetic real estate. Select case studies provide examples of the more creative financial structures currently being employed to meet rapidly growing and increasingly complex funding needs.
authors.affiliation: Citadel Group Limited, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Varwig
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D002202:Capital Financing / Q000379:methods*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000191:economics*; D007449:Investments / Q000191:economics*; D007860:Leasing, Property / Q000191:economics; D008494:Medical Office Buildings / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States