Word: merger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Employees say they have stayed informed aboutthe merger mostly from newspaper accounts, insteadof from the hospitals in which they work...
BOSTON--As top officials hail the merger of two of Harvard's leading teaching hospitals, the hospitals' rank and file are quietly grumbling that amid the euphoria over cost-efficiency and claims of improved service, they are being overlooked...
...hospitals this week took what may be the first step toward consolidating the five main Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals, hoping to reduce costs and improve care. Further, officials see the merger as a shift toward becoming a primary care network that will allow them to better cope with what appear to be imminent changes in the American health care system...
...part, administrators sought a merger with an eye to cutting $240 million in costs from the two hospi- tals' combined operating budgets of $1.2billion...
...Beth Israel Hospital, which along withChildren's and the Deaconess may eventually jointhe conglomeration, electrical staff worker DavidFitzgerald says the merger may serve the good ofthe communities, but not the employees...