Profit vs. nonprofit: sale or lease of the SamCor Division to an investor-owned system.
SamCor is a nonprofit multi-hospital system, based in Arizona which was created by the merger of several hospitals. Faced with a tumultuous environment and the need for capital, SamCor debated the decision whether they should merge with an even larger national investor-owned system. This is a question discussed by nearly every hospital in the country. In the following article the SamCor decision-making process and outcome are frankly described. Their systematic analysis and planning is a model effort.
D001130:Arizona; D003657:Decision Making; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D006268:Health Facilities / Q000191:economics*; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000191:economics*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000191:economics*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*