FINANCE
2015 is going to be full of healthcare acquisitions .
MOST ANALYSTS AGREE that this year will be full of healthcare acquisitions . In fact , when looking to 2015 , Tom Baldosaro , CFO at South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Vineland , New Jersey , believes the following : “ Big is going to be better . Small is not going to survive .”
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That ’ s certainly the case so far as there have been a record number of healthcare mergers and acquisitions of all sorts in the industry , and one of the main justifications for this influx is the greater integration between the physicians and the teams that care for patients .
But while M & A in the healthcare space may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finances , they may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care .
According to Harvard Business Review , “ the challenges of combining and managing the resources and operations of the different organizations and aligning their cultures may actually make the goal of integrated , patient-centered care much harder to achieve .”
10 March 2015