Opposition to Hospital Merger
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•Indiana residents and federal officials are urging state regulators to block a proposed hospital merger in Terre Haute
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Union Health , a nonprofit whose main hospital is licensed as a 341 -bed facility, would buy the county’s only other acute care hospital, the 278 -bed Terre Haute Regional Hospital .
Union says the merger to create one larger nonprofit health system would improve the area's poor public health rankings.
The Federal Trade Commission says the deal is “unlikely to result in improved quality and access”.
Ballad is the nation's largest state-approved hospital monopoly.
It has fallen short on meeting quality and charity care goals, according to reports from Ballad and the Tennessee Department of Health .
The state is now trying to hold Ballad more accountable for its quality of care.
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