Costello Michael M, West Daniel J, Ramirez Bernardo
Department of Health Administration and Human Resources, University of Scranton, USA.
Hosp Top. 2011 Jul-Sep;89(3):69-73. doi: 10.1080/00185868.2011.604261.
The pace of hospital merger and acquisition activity reflects the economic theory of supply and demand: Publicly traded hospital companies, private equity funds, and large nonprofit hospital systems are investing capital to purchase and operate freestanding community hospitals at a time when many of those hospitals find themselves short of capital reserves and certain forms of management expertise. But the sale of those community hospitals also raises questions about the impact of absentee ownership on the communities which those hospitals serve.
在许多独立社区医院资金储备短缺且缺乏某些形式的管理专业知识之际，上市医院公司、私募股权基金和大型非营利性医院系统正在投入资金购买并运营这些独立社区医院。但这些社区医院的出售也引发了关于 absentee ownership（非本地所有者）对其所服务社区的影响的问题。 （注：“absentee ownership”直译为“非本地所有者”，在医院语境中可能是指所有者并非本地社区相关主体，结合语境意译可能更合适，但按要求不添加解释，保留直译）
