The University of Colorado Hospital is a success story — and Colorado Springs is hoping a lease agreement and partnership with UCH will make Memorial Health System into one, too. UCH’s list of successes is long. It’s a $900 million-a-year enterprise, employing 4,100 people, ranked among the top 5 percent of the nation’s hospitals for [...]
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Continue reading …Mayor Steve Bach sent the Colorado Springs City Council a letter this week, outlining his vision for the way the negotiations to lease Memorial Health System should proceed. Bach, first of all, wants to be more involved. He also wants to use outside legal counsel to help City Attorney Chris Melcher during the negotiations. The [...]
Continue reading …The proposal to allow University of Colorado Hospital to lease Memorial Health System is one step closer to reality after today’s informal City Council meeting. The council decided to vote on the issue during tomorrow’s formal meeting for an official vote, including a separate vote about setting up a committee for the lease negotiations. The [...]
Continue reading …It’s unanimous: The Memorial task force will recommend that University of Colorado Hospital lease Memorial Health System for the next 40 years. All four City Council members on the task force said they support the CU proposal, joining the opinion of the advisory committee, which also supported the University of Colorado. “We’ll work with it,” [...]
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