Hospital Joint Ventures Legal Handbook

This new book summarizes the pertinent federal laws, identifies risks, and presents strategies by which hospital executives can structure and operate joint venture.

This text provides a guide for legally independent parties, such as a hospital & physician, to creating a venture that is jointly owned by both parties, giving the decisionmakers an executive briefing so that the issues will already bo on the table before contact is made with legal counsel.

Presents a survey-based publication intended to assist American business lawyers in advising clients in international transactions and preparing deals between US companies and overseas co-venturers.

The guide for decision makers, a how-to-do-it manual for everynonprofit hospital director in America. Our country's health carewill be much improved if directors buy and read this book. ?Phillip L. Isenberg, of counsel with the firm of Hyde, Miller,Owen & Trost, former California State Assemblyman and author ofCalifornia's law regulating the sale or joint venturing ofnonprofit hospitals with for-profits Health Care Alliances and Conversions provides nonprofit directors,trustees, and executives with practical advice for understandingthe numerous forms of conversions including the most controversialtype of transactions?joint ventures with for-profit chains. Inconcise and non-legal language, the authors explain directors'fiduciary duties in these complex conversion transactions. The bookclarifies nonprofit directors' and trustees' responsibilities tothe communities they serve and offers solid recommAndations on howto manage the conversion process without damaging reputations. Theauthors describe how to create marketing and valuation strategiesthat will meet the legal standards enforced by governmentregulators. This book is filled with easy-to-understand charts andtables, providing a summary of the legal duties that apply to thesecomplex transactions.