Hospital Mergers: Why They Work, Why They Don't

Hospital Mergers identifies the core lessons and practical ideas learned from dozens of real-world merger experiences and applies them to the strategic and operational challenges facing senior exectives and governing board members today. It is packed with case studies that provide empirical and instructive insights on the factors and final outcomes of hospital mergers within the past 15 years.

Larry Scanlan has more than thirty-five years of executive and financial health care management experience, having served the first half of his career as a hospital and health system executive and the second half as a consultant to hospitals, health systems, and academic medical centers. Currently Mr. Scanlan is president of Insight Health Partners LLC, a consulting firm providing operational improvement and strategic services to the health care industry. In addition, he is president of his own executive coaching firm, Scanlan & Associates LLC, assisting executives to be in a better position to provide leadership to their organizations.