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In meetings with healthcare executives, a common question frequently comes up in conversation "What are the latest real estate trends in the industry?" The answers that one hears these days revolve around consolidation, strategic partnership and cost compression, among other things. Mergers and acquisitions regularly dominate healthcare industry news, due to the ripple effect such activities create. The recent announcement of the CHI Franciscan/Virginia Mason alignment is a case in point.
While important, these issues are external to a healthcare organization unless you are the one doing the merging. The bigger questions real estate professionals like us often face have to do with the internal issues challenging our client organizations. From our standpoint, there are nine major activities that have received a much sharper focus in recent years.