Minnesota honchos have rejected a merger with South Dakota’s Sanford Health:
The proposed merger between Sanford Health and Fairview Health has been stopped.
On Thursday, both health systems announced the merger process would stop between the South Dakota-based Sanford and Minnesota-based Fairview.
In a news release, Sanford Health President and CEO Bill Gassen said merger talks did not have support from “certain Minnesota stakeholders” [Eric Mayer, “Fairview, Sanford Health End Merger Talks,” KELO-TV, 2023.07.27].
Minnesota’s top cop and their nurses are happy Sanford and Fairview will not combine:
The two companies originally set an end-of-March goal but pushed that date back several times amid pushback from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and calls for the state to exclude the University of Minnesota from the merger.
The deal drew opposition particularly over concerns it would put ownership of the University of Minnesota medical school’s teaching hospital in the hands of out-of-state ownership.
That and other issues drew scrutiny from Ellison, who held public forums on the issue. Minnesota legislators also passed a law last session that put new restrictions and oversight on health care mergers.
Others opposed the merger as well, including a key labor faction: the state’s unionized nurses.
“I personally am relieved that this merger has been called off,” said Mary Turner, a University of Minnesota regent and president of the Minnesota Nurses Association. “I don’t feel that it was in the best interest of the communities across Minnesota” [Michelle Wiley, Tim Nelson, and Matt Sepic, “Fairview, Sanford Call Off Health Systems Merger,” MPR News, 2023.07.23].
Sanford Health aborted a previous merger attempt with Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare in fall 2020.
Thank you Keith, you always, always have our back.
Our nasty men and women who put their efforts into denying women and girls the right to defend their own bodies are causing negative consequences outside of individuals and families. Their control is effecting entire industries and driving good deals from coming near our state. Not real smart. And actually very cruel.
It seems like the more they hurt the state, the more proud they are of themselves. Really creepy.
Their cultures were dramatically opposed…
Glad this happened-didn’t ever seem to be a good for either!
Can we forward these affidavits to Keith Ellison?
Montana has regained the top spot as the most lucrative state for doctors with South Dakota a close second. South Dakota has the fourth least punitive medical board and second lowest payout for malpractice while pay for doctors in Montana is fifth best but South Dakota is 29th in competition among physicians.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-doctors/11376
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2023/09/25/billionaire-t-denny-sanford-cut-from-the-giving-pledge-after-child-porn-probe-documents-released/
Does this mean that Mr. T. Denny will be keeping all his money?
I hope he pounds more into the big hole in the Hills, instead of bleeding it to the grubbing healthcare wanna-behemoth in Sioux Falls. You know, #4Science of the physical sort, not medical.
$20 says Stan Adelstein is every bit the lech Sanford is.
Mr. Stan is a swell fellow. No way he’s even got one of those fancy phones or a computer with capabilities to have pictures.
Mr Kurtz – That last remark of yours is offensive. It is beneath you – I hope.
Poker is to truth as catch and release is to subsistence.
Back when, at my good friend Lar’s urging, grudznick attended a session of Liberty Baptist Tabernacle overgodding to try to catch ahold of Mr. Howie who owed me money, we all used to be more forgiving about truth and subsentence.