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Illinois hospitals joining consolidation movement.
The Riverbluffs Health Services Alliance and the recent addition of three hospitals to the Unity Health Network are examples of the growing trend toward consolidation of health care in southwestern Illinois.
Two East St. Louis area hospitals joined forces with private physicians and neighboring primary care clinics to cut costs while providing a continuum of services to a target population of about 70,000.
The network, called the Riverbluffs Health Services Alliance, is composed of St. Mary's Hospital in East St. Louis, Touchette Regional Hospital in Centreville, Ill., and three primary care clinics all within a five-mile radius of one another: the Southern …
