Becker's Healthcare January 16, 2025
When Wright Lassiter III took over as CommonSpirit CEO in 2022 — three years after the merger between Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives and San Francisco-based Dignity Health was completed — one of his key goals was to unify the health system into a single, integrated entity.
“We were an organization that still functioned a lot like the vestiges of its component parts,” Mr. Lassiter said Jan. 14 at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. “While respecting legacy is critically important, one of the levers that CommonSpirit expected to drive success in its alignment in 2019 was to function as a unified system, to be integrated.”
Mr. Lassiter highlighted the complexity of the 137-hospital system’s technology landscape but expressed confidence...
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