US EditionUniversity of Minnesota, Fairview Reach Deal to Save Medical School Partnership
The agreement ensures $600 million in funding and $1 billion in facility investments over 10 years to sustain medical education, patient care, and research at the University of Minnesota.
- On Jan. 26, the University of Minnesota, Fairview Health Services and M Physicians announced a three-way, 10-year mediated agreement preserving the M Health Fairview partnership after seven weeks of mediation.
- A November deal between Fairview Health Services and M Physicians excluded the University of Minnesota, prompting the university to call it a 'hostile takeover' and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to mediate.
- Financial details show $50 million per year for the University of Minnesota Medical School and roughly $600 million in Fairview funding over the decade before performance-based payments.
- The University of Minnesota Board of Regents, the M Physicians Board, and the Fairview Board are expected to vote by Feb. 1 on a signed agreement that creates a framework for three incomplete contracts.
- Ellison framed the agreement as building on a 30-year partnership that preserves care for roughly 1.2 million patients and training for 70% of Minnesota doctors, with branding changes likely in 2027 and full effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
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University of Minnesota, Fairview reach deal to save medical school partnership
U of M and Fairview's relationship dates back three decades and trains more than two-thirds of Minnesota's doctors. But the future of the partnership, which was set to expire at the end of 2026, has been up in the air for years.
U of M, Fairview and M Physicians reach 10-year agreement after mediation
The University of Minnesota, Fairview Health Services and M Physicians — the U of M medical school faculty organization — have reached a three-way, 10-year mediated agreement that keeps alive the recently-endangered M Health Fairview partnership and a decades-long collaboration over research and patient care. The agreement, which contains key changes from a prior arrangement hashed out last November between Fairview and M Physicians alone, is ex…
U of M, Fairview and physicians reach agreement in M Health Fairview partnership's future
MINNEAPOLIS — Fairview Health Services, the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Physicians group have reached a 10-year agreement in continuing its M Health Fairview partnership, according to a Minnesota Attorney General's Office press release. "We are pleased to be able to continue this long-term partnership, which has played a vital role in caring for Minnesotans, training much of the state’s healthcare workforce and advanc…
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U of M, Fairview and physicians reach agreement in health care partnership's future
MINNEAPOLIS — Fairview Health Services, the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Physicians group have reached a 10-year agreement in continuing its partnership, according to a Minnesota Attorney General's Office press release. "We are pleased to be able to continue this long-term partnership, which has played a vital role in caring for Minnesotans, training much of the state’s healthcare workforce and advancing lifesaving med…
University of Minnesota, M Physicians, Fairview strike 10-year deal to continue existing partnership
After months of negotiations and, at times, contentious public statements, the University of Minnesota, its physicians and Fairview have reached a deal to continue their long-time partnership.
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