Lifespan Opens Talks On Collaboration With Care New England, Partners Healthcare

Lifespan, Care New England, and Partners Healthcare recently jointly announced that the three systems are entering formal talks to consider a partnership.  The subject of the talks will be to determine how the three might be able to collaborate in improving consumer health care and delivery in the state of Rhode Island.

The news comes in the wake of two of the involved organizations—Care New England and Partners HealthCare—having just entered into an agreement a month ago regarding a proposed merger between the two. The three entities anticipate that by combining their talent, experience, and resources that they . . .