Wadley parent company merging with IASIS

By submitted, 05/19/17 9:07 AM

BOSTON, MA – Steward Health Care LLC (“Steward”) and IASIS Healthcare LLC (“IASIS”) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge their operations. The transaction will make Steward the largest private for-profit hospital operator in the United States with 36 hospitals across ten states – including Wadley Regional Medical Center at Hope in Hope, Arkansas, managed care operations in Arizona, Utah and Massachusetts, and projected revenues of almost $8 billion in 2018, the first year of consolidated operations. The merger is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of 2017, subject to customary regulatory approvals, terms and conditions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Steward currently operates 18 hospitals and directly employs more than 1,300 multi-specialty physicians in locations across Massachusetts, Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. IASIS operates 17 hospitals and one behavioral health hospital in locations across Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Through this transaction, Steward will operate nearly 7,500 patient beds across ten states with approximately 38,000 employees including more than 1,800 directly employed multi-specialty physicians and several thousand aligned physicians.

The merger with IASIS positions Steward to leverage IASIS’s multi-state operating experience to bring Steward’s new model of health care and its award-winning health care services to patients across the nation. As part of the merger with IASIS, Steward will also begin managing the Health Choice managed care operations, which covers more than 680,000 lives. This will bring the total number of covered lives within Steward’s managed care and health insurance products to more than 1.1 million.

“Our physician-driven accountable care model focused on keeping patients healthy is transforming the health care industry as this transaction demonstrates,” said Dr. Ralph de la Torre, Chairman and CEO of Steward Health Care. “Our model shows how the industry can successfully shift toward a more cost-effective local, coordinated approach that puts patients first.”

The new model of health care practiced by Steward emphasizes quality care and wellness. Steward pioneered its health care model in Massachusetts, where it turned around some of the state’s most struggling hospitals into a thriving health system that improved outcomes, lowered costs, and decreased overall health care spending.

W. Carl Whitmer, President and Chief Executive of IASIS, said, “Since its formation nearly 20 years ago, IASIS’s mission has been to deliver high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to our patients and the communities we serve. We have accomplished this goal by investing in our growing hospitals and talented employees and by providing a broad and differentiated set of capabilities and assets to our high-growth, community-focused urban and suburban hospital markets. Steward’s innovative approach to reducing health care cost and improving quality of service will further this mission. It will be business as usual while all of us work toward a seamless merger of our operations.”

IASIS Healthcare’s 18 hospitals will all be merging under Steward Health Care, including:

Arizona

·        Mountain Vista Medical Center (Mesa, AZ)

·        St. Luke’s Behavioral Health Center (Phoenix, AZ)

·        St. Luke’s Medical Center (Phoenix, AZ)

·        Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital (Tempe, AZ)

Arkansas

·        Wadley Regional Medical Center at Hope (Hope, AR)

Colorado

·        Pikes Peak Regional Hospital (Woodland Park, CO)

Louisiana

·        Glenwood Regional Medical Center (West Monroe, LA)

Texas

·        The Medical Center of Southeast Texas (Port Arthur, TX)

·        The Medical Center of Southeast Texas – Victory Campus (Beaumont, TX)

·        Odessa Regional Medical Center (Odessa, TX)

·        Southwest General Hospital (San Antonio, TX)

·        St. Joseph Medical Center (Houston, TX)

·        Wadley Regional Medical Center (Texarkana, TX)

Utah

·        Davis Hospital and Medical Center (Layton, UT)

·        Jordan Valley Medical Center (West Jordan, UT)

·        Jordan Valley Medical Center West Valley Campus (West Valley City, UT)

·        Mountain Point Medical Center (Lehi, UT)

·        Salt Lake Regional Medical Center (Salt Lake City, UT)