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Article: Hospital sued over split; Parent doesn't want Christ Hospital to leave the fold.(Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati sues Christ Hospital)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- March 13, 2006
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Byline: Mark Taylor
The board of trustees of 440-bed Christ Hospital in Cincinnati is learning that breaking up is hard to do.
In January, the 117-year-old hospital's board informed its parent corporation, the not-for-profit Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, that it intended to leave the 11-year-old system, citing contractual defaults by the alliance, as well as a history of alleged underinvestment in the hospital and fears that the alliance planned to close the facility.
But the Health Alliance struck back, filing a civil lawsuit March 1 in Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, seeking to prevent Christ Hospital from leaving the ...