BJC Well being System of St. Louis and Saint Luke’s Well being System of Kansas Metropolis are transferring forward with their settlement to mix after satisfying all regulatory evaluations. The transaction is predicted to shut Jan. 1, 2024.
The settlement follows a letter of intent signed in Might 2023 by each nonprofit organizations. As a mixed system of roughly $10 billion in income with 28 hospitals and a whole bunch of clinics and repair facilities, BJC and Saint Luke’s attain will prolong throughout Missouri, southern Illinois and japanese Kansas.
Saint Luke’s will formally be part of BJC, and collectively, function as a single, built-in healthcare group that serves two areas with a definite model in every: BJC HealthCare within the St. Louis area and Saint Luke’s within the Kansas Metropolis area.
“That is an thrilling day for the way forward for healthcare within the Midwest,” stated BJC President and Chief Govt Officer Richard Liekweg, in a press release. “Our thorough due diligence evaluate, in partnership with Saint Luke’s, has affirmed the important alternatives we have now to enhance healthcare throughout the communities we serve. As an built-in well being system, we shall be unwavering in our dedication to supply extraordinary care to our communities, whereas creating the area’s premier vacation spot to follow world-class medication, uncover medical breakthroughs and ship modern fashions of care.”
Liekweg will proceed to function CEO of the built-in well being system. Saint Luke’s CEO Melinda Estes, M.D., has introduced plans to retire on the finish of the 12 months after delaying her deliberate 2021 departure to see Saint Luke’s, its sufferers, and groups via the pandemic.
Presently, BJC contains 14 hospitals and a number of well being service organizations. Providers offered by BJC embrace inpatient and outpatient care, major care, neighborhood well being and wellness, office well being, residence well being, neighborhood psychological well being, rehabilitation, long-term care, and hospice. BJC’s educational hospitals, Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Youngsters’s hospitals, are affiliated with Washington College College of Drugs.
Saint Luke’s has greater than 14 hospitals and campuses and greater than 100 major care and specialty workplaces, treating sufferers in 65 specialty companies throughout 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas.
The built-in well being system’s management crew and board of administrators will embrace illustration from each BJC and Saint Luke’s.
