The University of Minnesota and Fairview Health Services, which together serve roughly 1.2 million patients, have finalized a 10-year deal that funds the U’s medical school and ends the years-long possibility that their partnership would end in 2026.
The three-party agreement, which includes M Physicians and cements a mediated resolution announced in January, follows a protracted and contentious negotiations process to decide the future of the affiliations between the entities, whose 30-year agreement was set to expire this year.
“The agreement signals more distance between partners whose disagreements have often spilled out into the public,” the Minnesota Star Tribune explains. “Fairview will provide less guaranteed money than in the past to the U Medical School, and the university will no longer have three people on the Fairview board of directors.”…