title: Bucking the trend: is consolidation inevitable?
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006786:Hospitals, Urban / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012495:San Francisco; D014481:United States