Ailing health-care systems seek strength in numbers.

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Two struggling health-care providers will give birth next month to a joint-operating company. MedWest Health System Inc., scion of Haywood Regional Medical Center in Clyde and WestCare Health Corp. in Sylva, will be based in Clyde and oversee 170-bed Haywood Regional, 86-bed Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva and 48-bed Swain County Hospital in Bryson City. Haywood Regional suffered financially when it lost Medicare and Medicaid certification for five months because of...

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