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When hospitals join forces,
patients are the bottom Ming.

It’s been said t 6 vee

ealth
North promises to be a long
and ‘successful one

The two northern Michigan
health

di
Medicaid payments are e shrink.
ing, the timing for the part-
nership seems right.

Perhaps the best aspect of
the new th

able
n their own identities.
The ailisnee falls sho rt of
being

some ma abor-
tion, rerusettation orders and
organ harvestin;

Specifically, the partnership
will result in Munson taking

changes iuelude: a process that

makes it ier t
patients from Merey hospitals
to Munson, which has mo:

lish databases | ‘hat all the doc-
tors can utiliz

far, Mercy employees have

reportedly responded well to
the ing Munson role. y
time ni anagement comes

Y.
rely on Mercy for decades,

_Though the health care
industry is gana always has
petitive one,

good

a both organizations
are strong and healthy.

long a8 both groups con-

As
tinue to put the interests of
pat ents above all other con-

n’t be good for northern
Michigan