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Yankee Alliance is winding down. Neither it nor Pandion has named a destination for the acute membership.
October 2, 2026
Yankee Alliance announced a planned wind-down on September 29, 2026. Members and services move to "new strategic partnerships" from January 1, 2027, and the release does not name a partner. One partnership has a name from twelve days earlier: Pandion Optimization Alliance's agreement to acquire the non-acute affiliate business, which excluded the acute business by its own terms. As of October 2, 2026, neither company has named where the acute membership goes.
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