USA Health acquired Providence Health System from Ascension

Overview

Deal Type Mergers & Acquisitions
Client & Transactional Partners University of South Alabama Health Care Authority
Providence Health System
Ascension
Our Role Buy-Side Advisor

Summary

The University of South Alabama Health Care Authority has acquired Providence Health System from St. Louis-based Ascension.

USA Health engaged Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets, to serve as their strategic financial advisor based on our deep academic medicine and health system sector knowledge. USA Health and Providence have had a longstanding relationship and the transaction will help the organizations enhance access to high-quality healthcare in the Mobile, Alabama, community, and further USA Health’s ability to fulfill its tripartite mission of education, research, and clinical care. The transaction expands USA Health’s footprint in the greater Mobile market, ensuring the community has access to sustainable, quality healthcare long into the future.

USA Health is is based in Mobile and is the only academic health system along the upper Gulf Coast. The system comprises nearly 30 care delivery locations, including USA Health University Hospital, the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute, USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center, a comprehensive stroke center, and a Level III NICU. USA Health employs 3,900 clinical and nonclinical staff members, including 180 academic physicians who serve dual roles in treating patients and teaching the next generation of medical doctors.

Mobile-based Providence Hospital, which was founded in 1854 by the Daughters of Charity, is a full-service 349-bed hospital with 24/7 emergency care, a Level III trauma center, an outpatient diagnostic center, and a freestanding rehabilitation and wellness center. Providence became part of Ascension in 1999, when the Daughters of Charity and Sisters of St. Joseph Health System merged to form Ascension. Ascension is one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit Catholic health systems, with a mission of delivering compassionate, personalized care to all with special attention to people living in poverty and those most vulnerable.

Ascension includes approximately 36,000 aligned providers and operates more than 2,600 sites of care — including 139 hospitals in 19 states.

Cain Brothers

USA Health acquired Providence Health System

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