Reengineering governance to make mergers work.
Mergers are designed to trim excess capacity, but they can't if powerful local boards thwart restructuring efforts. UniHealth discovered that the hard way when local trustees stalled efforts to close a hospital; investment bankers told the system to clean up its board act. HSL examines how UniHealth, BJC, Lifespan and others are reshaping governance to act in their system's best interests.
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