Since 1980, about 1,000 hospitals have closed or merged as a result.

What happens to women's health care if private and religious hospitals merge?

Once a month the academy and the Hospital merge the two ends of the veterans' scale.

Many doctors have lost their jobs as hospitals merge and shrink under pressure from managed care.

Hospitals have been merging and diversifying their activities for years.

Everywhere, hospitals were merging for leverage in a changing world.

Many hospitals have merged or laid off scores of employees in an attempt to survive.

As the health system shifted toward managed care, hospitals merged, and nurses were laid off to cut costs.

The two hospitals merged in 1946 to become Concord Hospital.

The two hospitals merged in the summer of 1996, hoping to save money by consolidating departments.