title: Independent healthcare organizations band together to keep unwanted suitors at bay: are these alliances working?
abstract: Competitive pressures are forcing a growing number of independent health-care organizations to consider allying with local rivals to create a market presence capable of keeping mega for-profit competitors at bay. Such moves, however, do not reflect "just a for-profit versus not-for-profit thing," says one consultant. "This is life and death."
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: O'Malley
mesh_terms: D004465:Economic Competition; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006752:Hospital Planning; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009935:Organizational Affiliation / Q000639:trends*; D010067:Ownership; D014481:United States