From the January/February 2022 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
On an unrelated note, Intermountain also shut down 25 of its retail pharmacies earlier this summer and transferred prescriptions and inventory to CVS pharmacy. It now operates only its home delivery pharmacy, special pharmacy, and its Primary Children’s Hospital retail pharmacy location.
Headquarters for the newly combined system will be in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Intermountain is situated. A regional office will be in Broomfield, Colorado, the home of SCL Health. Harrison will serve as president and CEO, while Lydia Jumonville, president and CEO of SCL Health, will retain her current position during a two-year integration, and be a board member of a newly combined board. The board of trustees and team leaders will be selected from both systems.
"We are two individually strong health systems that are seeking to increase care quality, accessibility, and affordability,” said Jumonville. “We will advance our missions and better serve the entire region together.”
While the organization will be named Intermountain Healthcare, SCL Health’s seven Catholic hospitals will retain their Catholic names and be run according to existing practices. The same does not apply to its one secular hospital in Colorado.
LifePoint Health to acquire Kindred Healthcare, launching new healthcare company
In October, LifePoint Health acquired Kindred Healthcare and with it, plans to launch a separate 79-hospital healthcare system that will be known as ScionHealth.
ScionHealth will be made up of Kindred’s 61 long-term acute care hospitals and 18 of LifePoint’s community hospitals and associated health systems. In the acquisition deal, LifePoint will combine its more than 65 remaining hospital campuses and its network of physician practices and outpatient centers with Kindred’s rehabilitation and behavioral health businesses following the closing of the transaction.
The acquisition and launch of the new company are expected to help make LifePoint a more diversified healthcare delivery network, said David Dill, president and CEO of LifePoint, in a statement. “In forming two companies with unique areas of focus, LifePoint Health and ScionHealth can improve access to quality care, create more opportunities for our employees and invest in our communities.”
LifePoint and ScionHealth will be well capitalized businesses and will focus on care at the bedside. They will invest in innovative service and technology to advance clinical efficiencies and compliance, to make healthcare more accessible and enhance community-based care. Each ScionHealth hospital will operate under the same name as it currently does, with communities still able to obtain care from their same providers.
