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St Luke's and Aspirus affiliation complete

Undated - St. Luke’s and Aspirus have officially completed their affiliation with an eye toward improving the overall health for their communities.

The combined system, covering the U-P, northeastern Minnesota, and northern and central Wisconsin, will collaborate in clinical care, sharing medical knowledge and resources to improve care coordination and increase patient access for a broad region. The goal is to improve patient outcomes, provide more cost-effective services and advance the overall quality of health care.

The expanded health system will now operate 19 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations with nearly 14,000 team members, including 1,300 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Hans Ahlström is the host of several programs including the daily musical variety show Weekday, the mostly straight ahead jazz show Night Studio, the self explanatory Blues Today, and the eclectic Sound Spectrum. You can also hear Hans as the local host of NPR's All Things Considered news magazine. He also helps manage Public Radio 90's web content, interviews local and visiting writers and artists, works with NMU student interns, and writes the occasional news story.