A new buyer is eying cash-strapped Roger Williams Medical Center and Fatima Hospital as the Centurion Foundation has failed to close its proposed acquisition of the health care facilities .

Prime Healthcare , the California-based company that owns Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket , has expressed interest in the hospitals in Providence and North Providence and is exploring what it would take to acquire them, according to House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi and Gov. Dan McKee.

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