MANCHESTER — Two of the state’s largest health-care systems — overseeing Catholic Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center — want to combine forces into a $2.7 billion-a-year organization designed to expand patient services within the state.
Officials stopped short of calling it a merger, saying the more than a half-dozen hospitals involved would retain their own names and local leadership under the combined system, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health GraniteOne.
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