A Minnesota hospital and a Utah-based health system are selling dental clinics to other community centers.
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1. Park Rapids, Minn.-based CHI St. Joseph’s Health is selling its Community Dental Clinic to the Northern Dental Access Center, a nonprofit organization with three locations in Minnesota. The Northern Dental Access Center is scheduled to fully reopen the Park Rapids-based clinic in May, according to the nonprofit's website. The clinic will keep its existing staff and providers as part of the deal.
2. Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health is selling its dental clinic to Atchison Community Health Clinic, a federally qualified health center in Atchison, Kan. The sale is one of several changes the health system is making to its clinics in the state. The health system announced plans to close its Duchesne Clinic in Kansas City June 1, and will also transfer ownership of its St. Vincent Clinic in Leavenworth, Kan., to the Atchison clinic. The Duchesne and St. Vincent clinics are both primary care centers.
Intermountain Health referred to the transfers of its two clinics as a "strategic decision" that will help ensure patients continue to receive high quality healthcare at an affordable cost.