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BACKGROUND
Grant Makers in Health
"Health Care Conversions."
Modern Healthcare
"An Off Year for Consolidation."
Modern Healthcare
Project Hope
"The Community Impact of For-Profit Hospital Conversions."
Article – Summary and policy questions.
Modern Healthcare
"While You Weren't Sleeping."
Article - The business and investor side of hospital conversions.
New York Times
"When Healing Collides with the Drive for Profit."
Article – $$. Economics and healthcare can conflict.
U.S. Pharmacist
"Hospitals Move to Not-for-Profit Status."
Article - Reasons behind conversion and community reaction.
U.S. TRENDS
Article - $$. The fast-paced trend of conversions drops of in `97, a state-by-state breakdown.
Modern Healthcare
"Merger, Acquisition Activity Hits."
Article - $$. The volume of conversions increases in `96.
Modern Healthcare
"1995: A Record Year for Hospital Deals."
Article - $$. Highest number of conversions so far.
Irving Levin Associates - General Accounting Office
Hospital Acquisition Report, 4th ed.
Article - Tracks all hospital merger and acquisition activity.
Health Affairs Journal
"The Sale of Good Samaritan: A View from the Trenches."
Article - Management strategy behind conversion.
STATE TRENDS
"Alabama System in Columbia Deal."
Article - Alabama non-profit hospitals want to buy hospitals from for-profit owner.
JAMA
"California Public Hospitals: The Buck Has Stopped."
Article – Conversion trend in California, how does it represent the nation's interests?
Health Affairs
"Hospital Conversion Trends."
Article - Conversion may be concentrated in several states, for-profit and public conversion policy issues.
ANALYSIS
Article - May 1997. Survey of conversion variables, evidence.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
"For-Profit Health Care Companies: Trends and Issues."
Article - 1998, Influence, stock trends, recent events, public reaction.