Healthcare DIVE January 6, 2025
The combined system stretches across seven states and includes 56 hospitals.
Dive Brief:
- Approximately half a year after announcing plans to merge, Wisconsin-based Marshfield Clinic Health System has joined South Dakota-based Sanford Health.
- The deal creates a 56-hospital integrated nonprofit health system with operations across seven states: South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, according to a Jan. 2 press release.
- Marshfield will now operate as a region of Sanford Health. The clinic’s interim CEO Brian Hoerneman will remain on as president and CEO of the operating region.
Dive Insight:
The health systems reported they were in nonbinding merger discussions in July and signed a definitive agreement to combine in October.
The completed deal...
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