COUNT ON OUR WEBSITE, WTAE.COM. ANDREW: EXCEL A HEALTH AND BUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM ARE WORKING TO MERGE INTO ONE NEW HEALTH SYSTEM. KEY:LL BOTH SYSTEMS HAVE SIGNED A LETTER OF INTENT TO COMBINE ORGANIZATIONS. ACCORDING TO THE C,EO THE NEW HEALTH SYSTEM WOULD GENERATE OVER $1 BILLION IN REVENUE, AND BOY OVER 7000 PEOPLE, AND HAVE MORE THAN 1000 PHYSICIANS AND PRACTITIONERS TO SERVE A POPULATION OF 750,000. WE ARE TOLD THIS COMBINATION WILL SUPPORT FIVE HOSPITALS
Excela Health and Butler Health System to merge
Combined health system would support Westmoreland, Frick, Latrobe, Butler and Clarion hospitals.
Updated: 4:51 PM EDT Jun 1, 2022
Excela Health and Butler Health System are working to merge into one, new health system.Watch the report in the video player above.Both organizations have signed a letter of intent to combine their organizations, it was announced Wednesday.The joint statement said the combination of the two health systems would support Butler, Clarion, Frick, Latrobe and Westmoreland hospitals.According to the chief executives of Excela and Butler, the new combined health system would generate over $1 billion in revenue, employ more than 7,000 people and have more than 1,000 physicians and practitioners to serve a population of 750,000 in western Pennsylvania.Officials say final approval for the move could take through the end of the year.”We believe strongly that our new partnership will extend our intellectual and financial capital. In doing so, we can enhance access to care, decrease the cost of care and continue to focus on providing improved experiences and outcomes for patients,” Excela Health CEO John Sphon said in the joint statement.”The new system will provide additional services and better access to those services. We are pleased that this partnership amplifies our ability to provide tertiary care, yet remain physician led and community focused,” Butler Health System President Ken DeFurio said.
Excela Health and Butler Health System are working to merge into one, new health system.
Watch the report in the video player above.
Both organizations have signed a letter of intent to combine their organizations, it was announced Wednesday.
The joint statement said the combination of the two health systems would support Butler, Clarion, Frick, Latrobe and Westmoreland hospitals.
According to the chief executives of Excela and Butler, the new combined health system would generate over $1 billion in revenue, employ more than 7,000 people and have more than 1,000 physicians and practitioners to serve a population of 750,000 in western Pennsylvania.
Officials say final approval for the move could take through the end of the year.
“We believe strongly that our new partnership will extend our intellectual and financial capital. In doing so, we can enhance access to care, decrease the cost of care and continue to focus on providing improved experiences and outcomes for patients,” Excela Health CEO John Sphon said in the joint statement.
“The new system will provide additional services and better access to those services. We are pleased that this partnership amplifies our ability to provide tertiary care, yet remain physician led and community focused,” Butler Health System President Ken DeFurio said.