Two Northern Puget Sound hospitals decided Thursday to negotiate affiliations with PeaceHealth, while a third decided against moving forward on the deal for now.
UW Medicine will benefit from the affiliations by default because it recently entered into a formal referral partnership with PeaceHealth. That agreement bolstered PeaceHealth’s appeal, said Tim Cavanagh, a board member for Cascade Valley Hospital, which agreed to pursue the deal.
“The PeaceHealth/UW (affiliation) had a large enough…
Two Northern Puget Sound hospitals decided Thursday to negotiate affiliations with PeaceHealth, while a third decided against moving forward on the deal for now.
UW Medicine will benefit from the affiliations by default because it recently entered into a formal referral partnership with PeaceHealth. That agreement bolstered PeaceHealth’s appeal, said Tim Cavanagh, a board member for Cascade Valley Hospital, which agreed to pursue the deal.
“The PeaceHealth/UW (affiliation) had a large enough…