vcMercyHospValley City, ND (KCSi- T.V. News) — Administrators at Mercy Hospital in Valley City and four doctors are looking to reach an agreement on emergency room services before the the end of this month.

If an agreement is not reached patients of those doctors requiring hospitalization would be unable to get treatment from their primary doctors at Mercy Hospital.

Doctors, Misty Anderson, Genevieve Govan, Dave Hochhalter and James Buhr, who are physicians at Sanford Health Valley City, submitted letters resigning their privileges at Mercy Hospital on June 24, 2013.

Unless the doctors recind their resignations, they becom effecitve August 1, 2013.

The resignations do not include Doctor Tanya Diegle, a physician at Essentia Clinic in Valley City.

If the resignations take effect, the Sanford Clinic doctors would no longer have the right or privilege to admit patients to the hospital or provide care for those hospitalized patients.

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