Affiliation Without A Merger — Perspectives From Executives Who Are Making It Work

This presentation took place during The 2022 OPEN MINDS Mergers, Acquisitions & Affiliations Summit. The pace of mergers, acquisitions, and affiliations among health and human service organizations has quickened over the past few years. There are many drivers of these combinations – growth, scale, and diversification to name a few. But how to find the ‘right’ organization? And do you need to merge in order to attain sustainability, or can this be achieved with strategic alignment of like-minded organizations? Executives shared their best practices in:

Identifying (and courting) prospective organizational partners

Challenges they faced during the process

How they have . . .