Modern Healthcare: Hoag Sues Providence to Dissolve Affiliation

Officials from the Southern California health system Hoag filed a lawsuit against Providence to separate its two hospitals from Providence, a large Catholic health system based in Renton, Wash.

Hoag executives claim that the population health initiative driving the 2013 combination with then-St. Joseph Health was never achieved and that their operating philosophies are too different to reconcile. St. Joseph’s merger with Providence complicated matters as a centralized governance model allegedly stripped Hoag of local decisionmaking authority. (More…)