Healthcare Quarterly
Avoiding "Culture Rejection" in Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions: How New Heights Community Health Centres and York Community Services Minimized the Culture Risk when Forming Unison Health and Community Services
Abstract
Among the requirements for a successful merger or acquisition are strategic rationale, rigorous due diligence, the right price and revenue and cost synergies. However, bridging the culture gap between organizations is frequently overlooked. The leaders of New Heights Community Health Centres and York Community Services explicitly considered culture in their merger to form Unison Health and Community Services, and they used employee engagement surveys to assess culture in their merger planning and post-merger integration. How Unison Health leaders avoided the risk of culture rejection to achieve a successful merger, and the lessons learned from their experience, is the focus of this article.
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