Midland-based MyMichigan Health said Thursday that it has finalized its acquisition of three Ascension Michigan hospitals in Saginaw, Tawas and Standish, plus a nursing home and stand-alone emergency department/surgery center.
The deal, first announced in March, is the second recent deal that Ascension has made with a health system to shed some of its Michigan hospitals and related services.
Ascension proposed a deal last October with Henry Ford Health that calls for handing over control of eight Ascension Michigan and Genesys hospitals to the Detroit-based health system. But that deal has taken longer to finalize than initially expected, and according to a Henry Ford spokesperson, it is now on track to close sometime this fall.
MyMichigan Health is considered a separate nonprofit organization from the University of Michigan Health, although the two organizations share a clinical affiliation and business partnership; MyMichigan Health also uses U-M's branding and logo.
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It is unclear whether MyMichigan Health paid any money for the Ascension hospitals.
A spokesperson on Thursday told the Free Press that terms of the deal are confidential. Earlier in the year, however, MyMichigan Health President and CEO Dr. Lydia Watson appeared to suggest that such details might be released once the deal was final.
The following Ascension Michigan properties have now folded into MyMichigan Health:
- Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital in Saginaw, a 268-bed level II trauma center with 24-hour emergency care and a comprehensive stroke center. It is now renamed MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw.
- Ascension St. Mary’s Towne Center in Saginaw, which offers 24-hour emergency care along with an ambulatory surgery center, wound care center and short-stay facility. It is now MyMichigan Medical Center Towne Centre.
- Ascension St. Joseph Hospital in Tawas, a 47-bed acute-care hospital that offers 24-hour emergency care and includes a heart center, an imaging center, a joint-replacement center, childbirth services and a surgery center. It is now MyMichigan Medical Center Tawas.
- Ascension Standish Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Standish. This also includes all related offices and physician practices of Ascension Medical Group and Ascension Standish Skilled Nursing Facility , and 29-bed skilled nursing facility. It is now MyMichigan Medical Center Standish.
- All Ascension Michigan physician practices in the region, which includes about 160 total providers.
Watson said in March that they did not anticipate any job losses or hospital closures with the Ascension acquisition.
“This is not just about getting bigger, it’s about getting better,” Watson said in a news release issued Thursday. “Through the addition of these locations, we are building on the legacy Ascension has already established and our focus is to strengthen access to care and services for these communities.”
The Ascension deal has expanded MyMichigan Health's footprint to include about a dozen hospitals in Michigan.
If Ascension's deal with Henry Ford Health goes through, it will leave the Catholic health system with just four hospitals in Michigan — all in the southwestern part of the state.
An Ascension representative did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: MyMichigan Health finalizes acquisition of 3 Ascension hospitals
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