title: Mergers and acquisitions. Frequently asked questions and answers.
abstract: This article is structured in a question/answer format based on interviews with Dr. Carolyn Hope Smeltzer and Salima Manji Lin of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chicago, and Chuck Thomas of Hinshaw & Culbertson, Rockford. The questions come from CEO's, healthcare executives, and nurse executives at hospitals that are contemplating mergers or that have both succeeded and failed to merge their institutions. The experts share their knowledge.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Smeltzer
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009013:Morale; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States