12 Tips For Making Affiliations Work

Affiliations continue to present opportunities, but like all new approaches, they bring the possibilities of advantages and the risks of disadvantages. While affiliations promise scale, collaboration, and sustainability, poorly executed partnerships can fail to deliver these benefits and can bring great costs.

There are many reasons why affiliations are pursued across the health and human services sector despite the risk, as provider organizations manage the forces reshaping the industry—value-based reimbursement, integration, workforce shortages, consumerism, and technology disruption to name a few. All these forces are demanding strategic adjustments that many smaller organizations just aren’t prepared to tackle . . .