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Baylor-Methodist divorce gets ugly as CEOs send barbs via mail.(St. Luke's Episcopal Health System)(Baylor College, Methodist Hospital)

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 24-JAN-05
Format: Online - approximately 966 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The breakup between Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital has not gone well so far, with the Houston organizations pointing fingers at each other as the source of the problems.

The disagreement follows an April 2004 decision by Baylor to drop Methodist as its primary teaching...

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...facility for adult private patients, moving that designation to St. Luke's Episcopal Health System, also in Houston. All three are part of the Texas Medical Center.

Each side blames the other for the less-than-amicable parting, which currently is focused on about 300 faculty members who can choose to stay with Baylor-thereby shifting their practice to St. Luke's-or switch to Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, Methodist's new teaching partner.

Peter Traber, Baylor's president and CEO, says Methodist is trying to put "unreasonable and unworkable'' working restrictions on Baylor faculty, using office space that Baylor leases from Methodist...

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