NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York 10016, USA.
Acad Med. 2010 Dec;85(12):1817-8. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181f85a4b.
Elsewhere in this issue, Kastor details the merger and demerger of New York University (NYU) and Mount Sinai hospitals and medical schools. Academic medical center mergers are difficult endeavors to execute under optimal circumstances. The failure of the NYU-Mount Sinai merger was inevitable on the basis of preexisting cultural distinctions, lack of substantial faculty and staff support, and the inability to generate significant early accomplishments that were meaningful to the respective constituencies. Economies of scale and improved academic performance are challenging for merged medical centers to achieve in the short term--caveat emptor. The authors of this commentary discuss, from the NYU perspective, key lessons learned and offer insights about how certain difficulties could have been addressed.
在本期的其他文章中，Kastor 详细介绍了纽约大学（NYU）和西奈山医院和医学院的合并与拆分。即使在最佳情况下，学术医疗中心的合并也是一项艰巨的任务。基于预先存在的文化差异、缺乏实质性的教职员工支持以及无法取得对各自利益相关者有意义的重大早期成就，NYU 和西奈山的合并不可避免地失败了。对于合并后的医疗中心来说，在短期内实现规模经济和提高学术表现是具有挑战性的——警告。这篇评论文章从 NYU 的角度讨论了关键的经验教训，并就如何解决某些困难提供了一些见解。
