Dr. Turney will continue to guide the health system through its proposed merger with Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health, according to a Dec.12 news release shared with Becker’s. The two health systems announced their intent to join in October, and expect to reach a definitive agreement in the “coming months,” the release said.
“My time as CEO here has been the greatest professional experience of my life, and I am deeply proud of what we have achieved together,” Dr. Turney said in the release. “[Over the past decade] our workforce has more than doubled, we’ve brought hospital care to nearly a dozen communities, we’ve expanded into Michigan and battled through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.”
