St. Joseph Health, Providence To Merge, Create Nation’s Third-Largest Nonprofit Health System
The new entity, Providence St. Joseph Health, will include 16 St. Joseph hospitals, including five in Orange County, and 34 Providence hospitals, including six in Los Angeles County.
Orange County Register:
St. Joseph Health To Merge With Providence
St. Joseph Health and Providence Health and Services have received regulatory approval for a merger that will create the nation’s third-largest nonprofit health system, officials said Wednesday. The California Attorney General’s office signed off on the deal between the two nonprofit Catholic hospital chains. The new entity, Providence St. Joseph Health, will include 16 St. Joseph hospitals, including five in Orange County, and 34 Providence hospitals, including six in Los Angeles County. (Perkes, 6/22)
In other hospital news —
The Press Democrat:
Sonoma West Medical Center Mulls Management Change
After nearly eight months in operation, Sonoma West Medical Center is trying to recruit an outside organization with deep pockets and expertise in health care billing to keep the Sebastopol hospital alive. Sonoma West, which manages the taxpayer-owned hospital, had been scheduled to submit a proposal Wednesday to subcontract certain management functions to an outside entity, said Jim Maresca, president of the Palm Drive Health Care District, the agency that provides financial support and public oversight to the hospital. (Espinoza, 6/22)
Ventura County Star:
Final Steel Beam Placed In Project Designed To Transform Camarillo Hospital
Blessed and covered with signatures, the 600-pound beam was guided into place Wednesday atop the three-story, $80 million addition at St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital. It's the final beam, the last piece of steel framing in a project designed to turn an old hospital into a new one. It began with workers digging in the dirt a year ago. (Kisken, 6/22)