title: An off year for consolidation. 1997 hospital mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and long-term leases.
abstract: Because of a significant drop in the number of major corporate mergers and acquisitions, total hospital consolidation in 1997 was well off the record-setting pace of previous years. The number of hospitals involved in dealmaking dropped 18% to 627 compared with the previous year, according to Modern Healthcare's fourth annual roundup of consolidation activity. And there were only four corporate deals, compared with 11 in 1996.
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authors.lastname: Japsen
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000639:trends*; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000639:trends; D007860:Leasing, Property / Q000639:trends; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States