BJC, Saint Luke’s Shifting Forward With Missouri Merger

BJC Well being System of St. Louis and Saint Luke’s Well being System of Kansas Metropolis are shifting forward with their settlement to mix after satisfying all regulatory opinions. The transaction is anticipated to shut Jan. 1, 2024.

The settlement follows a letter of intent signed in Could 2023 by each nonprofit organizations. As a mixed system of roughly $10 billion in income with 28 hospitals and lots of of clinics and repair facilities, BJC and Saint Luke’s attain will lengthen throughout Missouri, southern Illinois and japanese Kansas.

Saint Luke’s will formally be part of BJC, and collectively, function as a single, built-in healthcare group that serves two areas with a definite model in every: BJC HealthCare within the St. Louis area and Saint Luke’s within the Kansas Metropolis area.

“That is an thrilling day for the way forward for healthcare within the Midwest,” stated BJC President and Chief Govt Officer Richard Liekweg, in an announcement. “Our thorough due diligence evaluation, in partnership with Saint Luke’s, has affirmed the important alternatives now we have to enhance healthcare throughout the communities we serve. As an built-in well being system, we can be unwavering in our dedication to offer extraordinary care to our communities, whereas creating the area’s premier vacation spot to observe world-class drugs, uncover medical breakthroughs and ship revolutionary fashions of care.”  

Liekweg will proceed to function CEO of the built-in well being system. Saint Luke’s CEO Melinda Estes, M.D., has introduced plans to retire on the finish of the yr after delaying her deliberate 2021 departure to see Saint Luke’s, its sufferers, and groups by way of the pandemic.

At present, BJC contains 14 hospitals and a number of well being service organizations. Providers supplied by BJC embody inpatient and outpatient care, major care, group well being and wellness, office well being, residence well being, group psychological well being, rehabilitation, long-term care, and hospice. BJC’s tutorial hospitals, Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Kids’s hospitals, are affiliated with Washington College College of Medication. 

Saint Luke’s has greater than 14 hospitals and campuses and greater than 100 major care and specialty workplaces, treating sufferers in 65 specialty providers throughout 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas.

The built-in well being system’s management workforce and board of administrators will embody illustration from each BJC and Saint Luke’s.