Becker's Healthcare July 8, 2024
WellSpan Health has added 131-bed Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pa., to its network.
The addition, announced July 8, brings York, Pa.-based WellSpan’s hospital count to nine.
WellSpan and Evangelical Community Hospital signed a definitive agreement to combine in February. At that time, Evangelical Community Hospital CEO Kendra Aucker told local news outlets that although the hospital has operated as an independent community hospital for nearly 100 years, its aging patient population and growing costs made that model unsustainable.
Now named WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital, the facility employs 1,900 individuals and has more than 170 employed and non-employed physicians on staff. The hospital is the only one in Central Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River Valley to have earned five stars...
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