Chief Healthcare Executive February 3, 2025
Matt Heywood, CEO of Aspirus, talks with us about integrating St. Luke’s, a $200M construction project, plans to build a new hospital, and potential for more growth.
It’s been an active couple of years for Aspirus Health, and the system has some other notable projects in the works.
Last year, Aspirus completed the acquisition of St. Luke’s in Duluth, Minnesota, a system operating two hospitals. With the deal, Aspirus, based in Wausau, Wisc., currently operates 18 hospitals and a host of other healthcare locations in Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota, and Michigan’s upper peninsula.
Aspirus isn’t done yet. The system is planning to build a small hospital in western Wisconsin, in a region where two hospitals closed last year.
The system also...