The University of Michigan's Michigan Medicine volition get Lansing-based Sparrow Health System, the UM Board of Regents announced Thursday.
"This definitive statement is transformational for Michigan Medicine, and by extension, the University of Michigan," President Santa Ono said.
The statement volition physique Michigan Medicine's statewide web and connection aesculapian services to patients who unrecorded successful the Lansing area, Ono said.
Sparrow Health has 7 hospitals successful the Lansing area, including its flagship infirmary conscionable eastbound of downtown Lansing, arsenic good arsenic a web of aesculapian providers successful mid-Michigan.
Michigan Medicine's web of hospitals see its University of Michigan Medical Center flagship infirmary successful Ann Arbor, C.S. Mott Children's and its Metro Health hospitals and outpatient aesculapian facilities successful the Grand Rapids area.
The planned merger of Sparrow Health into the Michigan Medicine strategy follows a mega-merger earlier this twelvemonth of the eight-hospital Beaumont Health and 14-hospital Spectrum Health systems successful metro Detroit and westbound Michigan, respectively, to signifier Corewell Health, the state's largest wellness attraction system.
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