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Clinic workers urge council to approve sale to Essentia Health; council says negotiations are progressing
Summary
Clinic staff and union leaders urged the Virginia City Council to support selling the city clinic building to Essentia Health to preserve local healthcare services; council members said negotiations with Essentia are moving positively and staff will continue talks.
Natalie Petrich, a lead radiology technician and local union president at the Virginia clinic, told the council she and her colleagues want the city to sell the clinic building to Essentia Health. "I'm here today on behalf of our membership and community to encourage you, the city council of Virginia, to sell the clinic building to Essentia Health," Petrich said.
Petrich said many patients travel from surrounding Northland communities to see specialists at the Essentia clinic and that local spending by patients and staff…
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