Volume 73 Number 2, 1995
In This Issue:
Paul D. Cleary
The history of acute care hospitals once was chronicled in terms of decades, but we now see reports almost weekly on major hospital acquisitions, consolidations, mergers, and closings. Many, if not most, clinicians, managers, planners, and researchers have been surprised, and sometimes shocked, by the nature and rate of recent changes in acute care hospitals. There is every reason to believe that the pace will continue, or even accelerate, during the next several years.
