In the era of health care reform, major hospital system consolidations are a regular occurrence, but the affiliation between Providence Health & Services and Swedish Health Services provided its own unique challenges.
Jeffrey Rogers, senior vice president and chief legal officer at Providence, spent much of 2011 and 2012 helping build the partnership between Providence, a five-state Catholic health system, and Swedish, a Seattle-based, secular hospital system.
It was a complex relationship to forge,…
In the era of health care reform, major hospital system consolidations are a regular occurrence, but the affiliation between Providence Health & Services and Swedish Health Services provided its own unique challenges.
Jeffrey Rogers, senior vice president and chief legal officer at Providence, spent much of 2011 and 2012 helping build the partnership between Providence, a five-state Catholic health system, and Swedish, a Seattle-based, secular hospital system.
It was a complex relationship to forge,…