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One of the biggest health care deals of the year was one that fell apart.
On Nov. 18, officials announced they would dissolve the 2-year-old
merger that had created the Penn State Geisinger Health System.
The 1997 union between Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Derry Township, and Geisinger Health System, Danville, was supposed to create an organization that could succeed in an increasingly competitive health care market. Geisinger would gain the cachet of an affiliation with a respected research institution, and Hershey would get badly needed financial support for its College of Medicine.