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INTERNAL FOCUS: After Massachusetts-based Partners HealthCare pulled its application to acquire Care New England and CNE withdrew from talks with Lifespan and Brown University to develop a unified, statewide health care system, Dr. James E. Fanale, CEO and president of CNE, says the company will now focus on internal priorities, including renovations at Kent Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital, over the next couple of years.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

CNE plots solo course (for now)

With a proposed merger dashed and talks ended on a “Rhode Island solution,” Care New England prepares to go it alone. By Elizabeth Graham

08/23/2019

Care New England Health System’s proposed acquisition by Massachusetts health care giant Partners HealthCare ended abruptly in June when Partners pulled its application, after CNE was drawn into talks with Lifespan Corp. and Brown University by Gov. Gina M. Raimondo. Six weeks later, CNE withdrew from discussions with Lifespan and Brown. Rhode Island’s second-largest health…