Testing the limits; Four systems vie to build first hospital in Minn. suburb.(The Week In Healthcare)(Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Modern Healthcare, September, 2004 by Evans, Melanie

Byline: Melanie Evans

Four major Twin Cities health systems considering expansion in a fast-growing Minneapolis suburb may soon test Minnesota's newly modified moratorium on hospital growth.

In late August, Park Nicollet Health Services and Allina Hospitals & Clinics announced a joint effort to explore building an acute-care hospital in Maple Grove, which saw its population mushroom 30% between 1990 and 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The pair joined two other large Twin Cities health systems that have separately expressed an interest in expanding the city's inpatient capacity: Fairview Health Services, a seven-hospital health system based in Minneapolis, and North Memorial Health Care, a Robbinsdale, Minn.-based network that includes...

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