An attempt to create a new statewide nonprofit health system with the University of Minnesota and two other health systems has ended, casting more uncertainty around the future of the state’s primary medical teaching hospital. People close to the negotiations who were not authorized to speak on the record cited an impasse over the proposed structure as the reason Duluth’s Essentia Health exited the talks. The end of talks involving Essentia leaves the U with limited time to forge a new agreement with its current partner, Fairview Health Services, which currently uses the M Health Fairview brand and provides $100 million per year to support medical training, research and patient care.
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Source: https://www.startribune.com/essentia-health-exits-talks-on-proposed-1b-partnership-with-u-leaving-academic-medicine-in-limbo/601479464