University of Minnesota Medical School Dean Friedman

(and in his spare time VP for Health Sciences)

A Bad Day at Black Rock?  

Sanford disengages from merger talks over concern about its integrity and good name. [sic]

Chuck Mooty, interim Fairview CEO, tells U of M to forget any talks about taking over Fairview because now is not the time. Also, please remove the knife from his back. 

Denny is going to be annoyed. 

What to do, what to do?

I guess that is why they make the big bucks in the U of M administration.

From the Pioneer-Planet

Updated: 04/10/2013 04:35:57 PM CDT

Sanford Health, a large health system based in South Dakota, has withdrawn from merger talks with Fairview Health Services, one of the state's largest networks of hospitals and clinics.

Fairview, meanwhile, says it will stop considering a competing proposal from the University of Minnesota to acquire the Minneapolis-based health system.

Instead, Fairview and the U will focus on improving a 15-year-old affiliation agreement between the parties that involves the teaching hospitals used by the university medical school.

The disclosures came Wednesday, April 10, in a statement issued by Charles Mooty, the interim chief executive officer at Fairview."We understand why they would choose to step back at this time, but the news comes as a disappointment," Mooty said of the decision by Sanford Health.

As for the U, he added: "We feel it is not the time to discuss any proposal that involves the university acquiring Fairview."

Christopher Snowbeck

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