Sharp HealthCare and Palomar Health jointly announced Wednesday that they will collaborate on patient care in North County, working together to “establish programs across clinical service lines.”
The agreement comes as Palomar, which operates hospitals in Escondido and Poway and a medical group based largely in inland North County, works to reach financial equilibrium after Kaiser Permanente opened a medical center in San Marcos one year ago.
Plans to grow revenue have not yet borne fruit, and Palomar’s elected board approved allowing its top executives to work for a private nonprofit company in hopes that doing so would make collaborative deals with private operators such as Sharp easier…