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February 1, 2006 | Issue Brief
During the 1990s, the hospital industry was transformed by mergers and acquisitions. This synthesis looks at why this rapid consolidation occurred and what impact it had on the price and quality for patients, and the cost of care for hospitals.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
VHA held a conference entitled Leading From the Edge of Chaos: Complexity Theory and Health Care Leadership. The objective was to explore how complexity science can trigger fresh approaches to important health-related issues.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result
During 1996 and 1997, researchers at the Economic and Social Research Institute, led by Jack A. Meyer, PhD, examined the St. Louis and Philadelphia hospital markets, which experienced extensive merger activity in the early 1990s, to assess whether horizontal integration combined with purchaser pressure can shrink the excess capacity in a hospital system.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
During 1997 and 1998, researchers at Boston University School of Public Health examined the short- and long-term impact that conversions of hospitals from nonprofit to for-profit status have on their communities.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
During 1994 and 1995, researchers from the Massachusetts Health Research Institute examined the effects of Chapter 495 on the health care market in Worcester, Mass.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1996 to 1998, researchers at Boston University School of Public Health updated an existing data set on U.S. urban hospital closings, mergers and other changes for the years 1936 through 1980 by extending the analysis through the mid-1990s.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1994 to 1997, researchers at the Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, studied the effects of deregulation on New Jersey hospitals.
October 1, 2000 | Program Result
During 1997 and 1998, researchers at the Sunnybrook Foundation examined the charges for 16 well-defined hospital services in different parts of the United States in order to test the hypothesis that there are wide price differences for the same hospital services.
July 31, 2008 | Program Result
In this 2004 to 2005 project, Robert J. Town, PhD, and a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed the relationship between managed care and hospital consolidation and the impact of hospital consolidation on consumers.
October 1, 2007 | Program Result
From 2001 until 2003, Project Director Alan Cohen, Sc.D., and co-investigators from Boston University studied the dynamics of hospital mergers and systems integration.