The Way Forward: Telehealth, mergers and new business arrangements to dominate health care Beaumont Health Beaumont Health's merger talks with Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health are part of a trend toward consolidation. Health care COVID impact: Health care suffered severe disruption as COVID cases swamped hospitals but much other care, and the payment that went with it, ground to a halt. The Way Forward: Federal stimulus money helped health systems stay afloat financially. Mergers and other joint agreements are the wave of the future. Also in this report: Nonprofitsface long recovery, uncertainty State governmentlikely to take up less space Manufacturing: Auto industry worries get flipped on their heads