title: Camelot or common sense? The logic behind the UCSF/Stanford merger.
abstract: Many academic medical centers (AMCs) throughout the United States have established their own community-based integrated delivery systems by purchasing physician groups and hospitals. Other AMCs have merged with existing nonprofit community-based delivery systems. Still other AMCs have been sold to for-profit firms. The AMCs at Stanford and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), chose a different strategy: to merge with each other to respond to the unique characteristics of the Bay Area marketplace.
authors: UCSF Stanford Health Care, USA.
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authors: Van Etten
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002140:California; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012495:San Francisco