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Santa Ana-based PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. plans to end 2002 with its headquarters in a new city-Cypress.
The healthcare services provider is doubling up its corporate operations and its California business in Cypress as part of a larger bid to improve profitability and efficiency, spokesman Dan Miller said.
Chief Executive Howard Phanstiel and other top officials are expected to move to Cypress later this year, Miller said. PacifiCare of California, a health maintenance organization that makes up the company's largest unit, already is in Cypress about 10 miles from PacifiCare's Santa Ana base.
PacifiCare's customer service and technology departments also are set to move to a complex of buildings on Katella Avenue in Cypress, he said.
With 2001 sales of $11.8 billion, PacifiCare easily will be the largest public...