Munson’s CEO Ed Ness said the health system wanted to explore other options, such as an affiliation, with other health systems and decided to end merger discussions with Spectrum as a result. At the end of August, University of Michigan Health Systems approached Munson about a possible affiliation as an alternative to a Spectrum merger.
Munson and Spectrum began discussing a merger in January.
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