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Nearby For-Profit Medical School Provided Incentive to Expand Clovis Hospital Campus

Joan Harrington, former director of social sector ethics, quoted by the Fresno Bee.

From its inception, the for-profit California Health Sciences University has benefited from a cozy — and some believe inappropriate — relationship with the nonprofit Clovis Community Medical Center.

“They have a financial interest in an organization that they have decided to do business with and support, and that means that they have a very clear conflict of interest,” said Joan Harrington, former director of social sector ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

“It’s hard to get an arm's-length transaction,” said Harrington, “when board members are seeking to do business with the nonprofit.”

Joan Harrington, former director of social sector ethics, quoted by the Fresno Bee.

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