ST. PAUL, Minn. – The SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa union is adding its voice to those against a proposed merger of Twin Cities-based Fairview Health Services with Sanford Health, headquartered in South Dakota.
Union President Jamie Gulley warns a merger will “create a bigger organization that has more power to raise prices or to lower wages. It doesn’t improve patient care for anybody and it doesn’t solve any of the problems that M Health Fairview has today, with respect to its profitability from its last merger with HealthEast.”
Leaders of the two healthcare groups respond that a combined system would be uniquely positioned to provide more people access to high-quality and equitable healthcare, plus increase population health and value-based care.
