Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services, a Catholic system, plans to partner with Seattle-based Pacific Medical Centers, or PacMed, according to a Puget Sound Business Journal report.
PacMed is a network of 150 providers that operates nine clinic locations in the Seattle area.
PacMed's providers and staff will not be subject to Providence's religious directives, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, but the clinics already do not offer abortions.
To keep the secular PacMed separate from the religious Providence, Providence formed Western HealthConnect, a secular organization and separate legal entity that owns Providence's non-Catholic partners, according to the report.
A final agreement between Providence and PacMed has yet to be signed, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported.
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