AUBURN — Auburn Memorial Hospital is considering an affiliation with Rochester General Health System.
The hospital and health system are starting talks to try to work out the details of a potential agreement. Auburn Memorial Hospital, a 99-bed acute-care facility, expects to spend four months discussing the possible partnership with Rochester General Health System, a health-care delivery system that includes the 528-bed Rochester General Hospital.
“We plan to explore how an affiliation will provide for greater access to local care, physician recruitment and retention, facilities support, and best-practice sharing,” Auburn Memorial Hospital President and CEO Scott A. Berlucchi said in a news release. “However, it’s premature to delve too deeply into those elements until due diligence is complete.”
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Any affiliation with Rochester General Health System would include Auburn Memorial Hospital employees’ “ongoing involvement,” Berlucchi said.
Auburn Memorial Hospital has been weighing the prospect of affiliating with a larger health system since August. The hospital expects to provide an update on the affiliation talks in four months.
Auburn Memorial Hospital is a not-for-profit acute-care facility that serves a population of about 80,000 in Cayuga County and surrounding Finger Lakes areas. It also runs urgent-care facilities in Auburn and Skaneateles, a veterans clinic, and the Finger Lakes Center for Living, an 80-bed skilled-nursing facility.
Rochester General Health System includes Rochester General Hospital, the 120-bed Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, long-term care facilities Hill Haven and DeMay Living Center, a medical group of more than 40 practices in Monroe and Wayne counties, the Behavioral Health Network, and the Independent Living for Seniors program.
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