Emory Healthcare is ending its partnership with Hospital Corporation of America at two metro Atlanta hospitals, officials said Friday.
Emory will buy out HCA and take full ownership of Emory Johns Creek Hospital, said Emory spokesman Lance Skelly.
In turn, HCA will take full ownership of Emory Eastside Medical Center in Snellville, he said.
The transfer of ownership is expected to take several months, he said.
Skelly declined to discuss the reason behind the split, and an HCA representative could not be reached for comment Friday evening.
The division runs counter to a trend of hospital affiliations and joint ventures in metro Atlanta.
Some say these partnerships reveal shortcomings.
"There were two different ways of doing business, " Bill Custer, a professor of health administration at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, said recently.
"While the names were co-mingled, the cultures were not. It creates different expectations."
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