Hospital Librarianship: Preparing a Library for a Hospital Merger

Submitted by Isaac Huffman, AHIP, System Library Services, Providence Health & Systems, Olympia, WA; edited by Angela Spencer The hospital buying spree has taken on a feverish quality over the past few years in the United States. Of the 5,627 hospitals nationwide, 1,816 (32%) were part of a merger or acquisition between 2006 and 2015…