Overview
- Fairview Health Services and University of Minnesota Physicians announced a framework for a partnership starting Jan. 1, 2027, to support clinical care and the medical school over the next decade.
- The terms include a $50 million guaranteed annual payment to UMP with additional performance-based funds, plus a $1 billion capital commitment over 10 years for University of Minnesota Medical Center and related sites.
- University leaders and the Board of Regents say they were excluded from talks, label the proposal a hostile takeover, and have asked the Attorney General to involve the university and consider legal options.
- Fairview and UMP contend the agreement does not require university approval and say UMP has independent contracting authority, while Attorney General Keith Ellison welcomed the deal as a stabilizing step.
- All Fairview academic support would flow to UMP rather than directly to the university, with transfer mechanisms still unresolved, and key items such as branding and graduate medical education provisions remain under negotiation as the current affiliation ends in 2026.