Hospital surgeon partnership to dissolve

COLFAX - Hospital boards at Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics, Pullman Regional Hospital and Gritman Hospital have made the decision to dissolve Palouse Surgeons LLC, effective Sept. 1, 2021. The partnership was developed to provide general surgery to the three area hospitals and has served them since 2009.

The three surgeons in the partnership are Drs. John Visger, Juan Parra and Nancy Panko.

"It's worked really well," Whitman Hospital spokeswoman Laurie Gronning said.

The struggle has been in giving adequate service to all three hospitals, Gronning said.

Whitman Hospital has a 20% share i...