Background The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two
decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital …

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely
healthcare topics (eg, organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) …

PURPOSE Centralization is often proposed as a strategy to improve the quality of certain
high-risk health care services. We evaluated the extent to which existing hospital systems …

Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) are increasingly being acquired by private equity firms,
yet the implications for patients remain understudied. In this study we employed a quasi …

Importance Hospitals are rapidly consolidating into regional delivery networks. To our
knowledge, whether these multihospital networks leverage their combined assets to improve …

Organizations, for the past 30 years, have used the Balanced Scorecard to measure and
implement their strategies. A particular application has been for a company's merger and …

Background: Internationally, Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU) ambulances have changed pre-
hospital acute stroke care delivery. MSU clinical and cost-effectiveness studies are …

Objective: To determine how Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan networks impact access
to high-volume hospitals for cancer surgery. Background: Cancer surgery at high-volume …

While patients with end-stage kidney disease have benefited from innovations in clinical
therapeutics and care delivery, these changes have been primarily incremental and have …

Background The association of hospital market competition, financial costs, and quality of
oncologic care has not been well-defined. This study sought to evaluate variations in patient …