Becker's Healthcare January 3, 2025
Here are five hospitals consolidating since Dec. 25, as reported by Becker’s:
1. Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System officially merged into a nonprofit integrated system and will operate under one entity as Sanford Health. The combined entity comprises a 56-hospital system, 4,500 providers, approximately 56,000 employees, two fully integrated health plans, research institutions and specialty pharmacies.
2. Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare took control over Dixon, Ill.-based Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital on Jan. 1, 2025, making it the Catholic-based nonprofit health system’s 17th hospital acquisition. The 80-bed hospital now operates as St. Katharine Medical Center and will follow the religious and ethical directives outlined by...