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Article: INTERMOUNTAIN SET TO EXIT WYOMING.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- August 16, 1999
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Intermountain Health Care will shed its Wyoming hospitals, selling 38-bed Evanston (Wyo.) Regional Hospital to Community Health Systems and terminating its management agreement with 39-bed Star Valley Hospital in Afton.
The moves will reduce not-for-profit Intermountain's ownership to 22 hospitals in Utah and Idaho and end a hospital-related presence in Wyoming dating back to the 1940s.
Intermountain will continue to market its commercial HMO, IHC Direct Care, in Wyoming, where it covers 7,000 enrollees.
Intermountain says its decision to terminate a two-decade management relationship with Star Valley effective Oct. 1 prompted the sale of ...