title: Smart shoppers. What happens when the board, staff, and community work together on a hospital sale?
abstract: Many communities are protesting the sale of their hospitals to for-profit chains without stopping to consider all the ramifications. But when the board, staff and community work together on a hospital sale, everyone ends up a winner.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D006075:Governing Board; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000458:organization & administration; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000458:organization & administration; D008404:Massachusetts; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D010067:Ownership