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Longview Regional parent buys hospital
By Mike Elswick
| Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 08:13 AM
Hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc. said Monday that a subsidiary has bought the remaining 35 percent interest in Affinity Health Systems LLC., which indirectly owns and operates Trinity Medical Center of Birmingham, Ala.
Community Health Systems is the parent company of Longview Regional Medical Center.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Alabama hospital has been operated as a joint venture between a Community Health affiliate as the 65 percent owner and Baptist Health System Inc. since 2005, the company said.
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