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Teaching hospitals from Boston to San Francisco are merging and transforming themselves into so-called integrated health care systems. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, both affiliated with Harvard, have merged into a new entity, Partners Healthcare System. In July, despite opposition from labor unions and the vocal dissent of some of its own members, the board of regents of the University of California approved the governance structure of a new nonprofit corporation resulting from the merger of Stanford Health Services, a private institution that includes Stanford University Hospital, with the hospitals of the University of California at San . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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