The leadership at the Coastal Health Alliance has new plans to fold the nonprofit into Petaluma Health Center, a larger organization it hopes can both relieve the alliance’s heavy administrative burden—which it says is causing staff burn-out and turnover—and expand services for patients on the coast.
It is not the alliance’s first effort to merge. In 2017, plans to fold into West County Health Services fell through for undisclosed reasons, leaving C.E.O. Steven Siegel…