( December 17, 2012) -- The November 29 announcement of a deal to purchase St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic, New Jersey, was the latest chapter in a consolidation story with local and national repercussions. St. Mary’s Hospital, long associated with literary icon and poet William Carlos William, a pediatrician who delivered 3,000 babies during his long career at the hospital, may soon be purchased by a California-based health-care conglomerate....