“The state can make some tough decisions that are very, very difficult for local officials to make because of local political pressures. For example, you have to cut costs in Atlantic City in order to reflect what the city is today, not what it was 25 years ago, when the casinos were at their peak. You may have to sell assets and that’s a very, very painful decision to make,” said Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University Dean James Hughes.
NJSPL: Making Sense of NJ Hospital Consolidation in a Challenging Policy Environment
By Derek DeLia, Joel Cantor, Bingxiao Wu, Yuhao Zheng Hospital consolidation is drawing more and more attention from healthcare scholars, policymakers, and the media. This consolidation includes hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the growth of large,...