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Downers Grove-based Advocate Health Care and
Evanston-based NorthShore University Health
System unveiled plans to combine and create a
16-hospital system, the largest in Illinois.
Health insurer Anthem Blue Cross and seven
California hospital groups plan to enter into a
joint venture with the goal of providing high-
quality, coordinated and efficient care throughout
the state. Participating hospitals and health sys-
tems include UCLA Health System, Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center and Good Samaritan Hospital
— all based in Los Angeles. Huntington Memo-
rial Hospital in Pasadena, Fountain Valley-based
MemorialCare Health System, PIH Health in
Whittier and Torrance (Calif.) Memorial Health
will also be part of Anthem Blue Cross Vivity.
St. Louis-based Ascension Health and Evolution
Health — a division of Greenwood Village, Colo.-
based Envision Healthcare — formed a joint
venture to provide post-acute services, including
home care, to individuals in communities served
by Ascension's Health Ministries.
Athens (Ga.) Regional Health System and Mor-
gan Memorial Hospital in Madison, Ga., an-
nounced plans to form a clinical collaboration to
strengthen primary care delivery.
Beaumont Health System in Royal Oak, Mich.,
Oakwood Healthcare in Dearborn, Mich., and
Botsford Health Care in Farmington Hills, Mich.,
finalized their merger and created a new $3.8 billion
nonprofit health system called Beaumont Health.
The Brooklyn (N.Y.) Hospital Center became a
clinical affiliate of The Mount Sinai Hospital in
New York City and an academic affiliate of The
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Community Memorial Hospital in Hicksville,
Ohio, decided to end its affiliation with Fort
Wayne, Ind.-based Lutheran Health Network.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Duke LifePoint Health-
care completed its acquisition of Conemaugh
Health System in Johnstown, Pa.
Maine's Department of Health and Human Ser-
vices approved Farmington, Maine-based Frank-
lin Community Health Network's proposed
partnership with Portland-based MaineHealth.
The board of Hudson Valley Hospital Center in
Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., voted to pursue a part-
nership with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in
New York City.
Jameson Health System, based in New Castle, Pa.,
signed a letter of intent to merge with Pittsburgh-
based UPMC.
King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland,
Ky., affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic Heart &
Vascular Institute.
Lodi (Calif.) Health signed a letter of intent to
form an affiliation with Roseville, Calif.-based
Adventist Health.
The New York Public Health and Health Plan-
ning Council unanimously approved a proposed
affiliation between Montefiore Health System in
Bronx, N.Y., and White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital.
Chicago, Ill.-based Northwestern Memorial
HealthCare and Winfield, Ill.-based Cadence
Health completed the agreement that expands
Northwestern Medicine, a fully integrated health
system.
North Bergen, N.J.-based Palisades Medical Cen-
ter, a 202-bed facility, signed a letter of intent to
join Hackensack University Health Network, one
of the largest healthcare systems in New Jersey.
Eight hospitals, 163 clinics, 24 ancillary provider
locations and 2,875 primary and specialty physi-
cians in Washington State formed a new health
network — Puget Sound High-Value Network.
Some of the providers in the new network include:
Tacoma, Wash.-based CHI Franciscan Health
(formerly Franciscan Health System); Bellevue,
Wash.-based Overlake Medical Center; Bothell,
Wash.-based Lakeshore Clinic; and Seattle-based
Virginia Mason Medical Center. The network will
be managed by First Choice Health in Seattle.
River Parishes Hospital in LaPlace, La., agreed to
join New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System.
Under the agreement between Ochsner and the
hospital's current parent company, Brentwood,
Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals, Ochsner will
run River Parishes as an outpatient medical facil-
ity, with a focus on emergency, outpatient diag-
nostic and primary care services.
St. Louis-based SSM Health Care entered into an
agreement to acquire Audrain County Health De-
partment's Home Health and Hospice Division.
Sylvania Franciscan Health in Toldeo, Ohio, and
Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initia-
tives reached a definitive merger agreement. Un-
der the agreement, CHI will assume ownership of
the seven-hospital system from the Sisters of St.
Francis of Sylvania, Ohio.
Three North Carolina health systems — Vidant
Health, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
and WakeMed Health & Hospitals — formed a
shared services operating company.
Hospital & Health System Transactions
ADVERTISING INDEX
Note: Ad page number(s) given in parentheses
ADVERTISER
ABM.
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442-1140 (p. 59)
ASCOA.
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(p. 7)
ASD Management.
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(626) 840-4248 (p. 42, 44)
Athena Health.
www.athenahealth.com/connectcare / (877) 317-4277 (p. 13)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
www.baml.com/healthcare (p. 2)
Certified Equipment Appraisal Associates, Inc.
ceaahealthcare@aol.com / www.ceaahealthcare.com /
(215) 260-2680 (p. 16)
Community Hospital Corporation.
www.communityhospitalcorp.com / (972) 943-6400 (p. 27)
EmCare.
www.emcare.com / (877) 416-8079 (p. 30)
Esutures.com.
info@esutures.com / www.esutures.com / (888) 416-2409
(p. 54)
Fidelity Investments.
www.fidelity.com/imaginetomorrow / (866) 715.2059 (p. 5)
Haylard Health.
www.halyardhealth.com. (770) 587-7070 (p. 25)
HealthCare Appraisers, Inc.
info@hcfmv.com / www.healthcareappraisers.com /
(561) 330- 3488 (p. 38, 41)
Insigniam.
www.insigniam.com / (949) 494- 4553 (p. 9)
Intelligent Insights.
info@ intelligentinsites.com / www.intelligentinsites.com /
(866) 520-9113 (p. 63)
Jefferson.
www.jefferson.edu/beckers / (215) 503-0174 (p. 61)
Key.
www.key.com/healthcare (p. 21)
North American Partners in Anesthesia.
info@napaanesthesia.com / www.napaanesthesia.com/
innovations/peak-performance / (516) 945-3333 (p. 33)
Nexus Health Resources.
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com / (845) 648-3057 (p. 28)
Palmero Healthcare.
www.palmerohealth.com/requestsamples / (800) 344-6424
(p. 55)
PNC.
healthcaresolutions@pnc.com. www.pnc.com/healthcare (p. 19)
Principle Valuation, LLC.
info@principlevaluation.com / www.principlevaluation.com /
(312) 422-1010 (p. 4)
Prism Healthcare Partners, LTD.
results@prismhealthcare.com / www.prismhealthcare.com /
(312) 610-4850 (p. 3)
ScorpionHealthcare.
www.scorpionhealthcare.com / (888) 848-0097 (p. 31)
SpecialtyCare.
info@specialtycare.net / www.specialtycare.net /
(625) 345-5400 (p. 50, 53)
SullivanCotter and Associates, Inc.
www.sullivancotter.com / (888) 739-7039 (p. 29)
Surgical Directions.
info@surgicaldirections.com / www.surgicaldirections.com /
(312) 870-5600 (p. 22)
Surgipalooza.
customer.service@surgipalooza.com /
www.surgipalooza.com / (844) 394-2100 (p. 17)
The Greeley Company.
info@greeley.com / www.greeley.com / (888) 759-3054 (p. 26)
Tiger Text.
info@tigertext.com / www.tigertext.com / (800) 572-0470 (p. 47)
VigiLanz.
connect@vigilanzcorp.com / www. vigilanzcorp.com / (855)
525- 9078 (p. 56)
VMG Health.
osullivan@vmghealth.com / www.vmghealth.com / (214)
369-4888 (p. 63)
