Hospital mergers in N.J. unite sagging health-care quality with rising costs | Opinion
It's a small world in New Jersey health care and getting smaller every day. Eight proposed hospital mergers are currently awaiting approval. That brings the total to 18 completed and pending sales, mergers and partnerships in our state since 2010. As a nurse, I'm very concerned about the impacts of this rampant consolidation of our local hospitals. It's like a large snowball rolling downhill, collecting all our community health resources along the way. We should be careful ab