Providence Health Care, Spokane, Wash.-based Cancer Care Northwest and Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, have signed a memorandum of understanding as the first step in forming the alliance. The three providers would collaborate on patient care, clinical trials and physician recruitment while reducing costs and retaining local patients.
According to a Spokesman-Review report, the alliance will also prevent costly competition between the providers — Providence Health Care has now stopped plans to construct a new cancer clinic that would have incurred high initial costs and heavy competition from nearby Cancer Care Northwest.
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