Non-Profit Health Systems Advocate Aurora Health & Atrium Health To Combine

Non-profit health systems Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health announced plans to combine operations to form a new a joint operating company to be known as Advocate Health. The new organization will have a combined footprint across Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. It will serve 5.5 million consumers, operate more than 1,000 sites of care and 67 hospitals, employ more than 7,600 physicians and nearly 150,000 teammates, and have combined annual revenues of more than $27 billion.

Advocate Aurora Health is a large non-profit integrated health system. It serves more . . .