PVHS, UCH on path toward health unification

FORT COLLINS/AURORA – Rulon Stacey gets a little irked when someone refers to a proposed joint operating agreement between Poudre Valley Health System and the University of Colorado Hospital as a merger.

Or that such an agreement will create a big, impersonal health-care system.

“First, it’s not a merger, and we hope to make that clear,´ said Stacey, CEO of PVHS. “My only response to that (concern) is both organizations have built our reputations on providing quality care to our patients. It will be the goal of the new organization to duplicate that throughout the network.”

Poudre Valley Health System, which includes Poudre…