The two organizations contend that their combined strengths will help to advance the level of care for patients in New York and Connecticut. (Photo Credit Northwell Health)
August 28, 2024 – Jeff Lagasse, Editor –
Attorneys general from Connecticut and New York have given their blessing to a 28-hospital merger proposed by Northwell Health and Nuvance Health that would establish a roughly $18 billion integrated health system.
The two organizations contend that their combined strengths will help to advance the level of care for patients in New York and Connecticut, where respectively, Northwell and Nuvance are headquartered. The new regional system will boast a network of 14,500 providers and more than 1,000 sites of care, including 28 hospitals.
According to a statement from the office of Connecticut AG William Tong, Northwell and Nuvance have agreed to preserve labor and delivery services at Sharon Hospital and to strengthen access to local healthcare in Western Connecticut, resolving the antitrust investigation into the proposed affiliation between the two hospital systems.
As a condition of approval, Northwell agreed to several enforceable conditions for five years to maintain competition and affordable access in the healthcare market.
For one, the health system said it would commit financial and operational resources towards the installation of a unified electronic medical records system, including the related IT and cybersecurity expertise required for improvements to Nuvance’s IT infrastructure, as well as enhancement of data security.
