Dispute resolved between hospital and nonprofit

The official severing between a nonprofit that had been the fundraising arm of Aspen Valley Hospital for 41 years and the health care facility was finalized earlier this year after the two entities spent two years arguing whether millions of dollars in donations were properly distributed. The Aspen Valley Foundation, which is now defunct as a result of the dispute and was formerly known as the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation from its inception in 1973 to 2012, contends that the hospital attempted to collect $9 million of donations that were intended for other needy nonprofits in the valley, like the Aspen Homeless Shelter and HomeCare & Hospice of the Valley.