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US: VHA-UHC merger creates largest member-owned healthcare company

By  |  February 4, 2015

Texas-based nonprofit hospital network VHA . will merge with UHC Chicago-based medical centers, to form then ation’s largest member-owned healthcare supply chain.

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    The resultant company, will serve more than 5,000 healthcare system members and affiliates, and about 30 percent of hospitals in the US.

    “This combined organization will have even greater ability to harness the power of healthcare’s brightest minds to provide targeted expertise to improve financial, operational and clinical performance.” Said Nonomaque, Chief Executive Officer at VHA.

    The deal is expected to close by late March.

     

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