CHCA Explores Issues Related to Investor-Owned Entities
July 11, 2010
Posted by chcablogadmin in : Leadership
In the interest of exposing competitive threats to free-standing children’s hospitals, CHCA commissioned Dan Cain and his colleagues at Cain Brothers to analyze the implications of investor-owned involvement in children’s health care. The engagement follows closely on the heels of Vanguard’s prospective purchase of Detroit Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
A small group of CHCA CEOs are participating in individual discussions with Cain. We hope to use the findings to determine whether investor-owned systems are any more or less of a formidable competitive threat than nonprofit integrated delivery systems and other local nonprofit hospitals. The Cain analysis will be presented to the CHCA Board in August.
Please let us know if you have any questions to add to the list for Cain to explore:
- Are investor-owned operators specifically targeting children’s hospitals as acquisition targets?
- Are investor-owned operators pursuing strategies of expanding into higher acuity children’s services?
- Does health care reform make children’s hospitals and children’s services any more attractive to for-profit systems?
- Does tax status matter? Does it impact how hospitals operate and fulfill missions? Does it influence quality, safety and reputation? How does it influence patients’ perspectives? Does tax status matter to physicians and medical staff governance?
- How will ACOs impact hospital and physician networks, and could ACOs be a prospective consolidation accelerator?
- What influences consolidation – population base, market dilution from existing competition, need for capital or other issues?
If you have questions about this project, please contact Jacqueline Kueser at jacqueline.kueser@chca.com.
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