Simply weeks after Philadelphia-based Jefferson Well being and Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Well being Community (LVHN) introduced plans to merge, the College of Pennsylvania Well being Machine (UPHS) and Doylestown Well being leaders introduced plans for the Greenbacks County well being machine to turn into a part of Penn Medication.

Doylestown Well being is a not-for-profit, clinically built-in community of care, with its flagship being 247-bed Doylestown Health center, which might turn into the 7th Penn Medication health facility. Along with its 3 Philadelphia hospitals — the Health center of the College of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Scientific Heart, and Pennsylvania Health center — Chester County Health center, Lancaster Normal Well being, and Princeton Well being are a part of UPHS, having joined in 2013, 2015, and 2018, respectively.

“Penn Medication targets to offer choices for sufferers in every single place in our area, regardless of the place they are living. From receiving number one care and having a child to present process orthopedic surgical procedure or receiving complicated remedy for most cancers or center illness, we wish it to be simple for sufferers to select Penn Medication throughout their lifespan,” stated UPHS CEO Kevin Mahoney, in a observation. “We’re excited to discover this chance with Doylestown Well being, which has a powerful, ancient dedication to sufferers within the Northern area of the spaces we serve.”

The organizations stated the brand new partnership will construct upon present medical integration between UPHS and Doylestown Well being. Penn Radiation Oncology at Doylestown, as an example, opened in 2011 and delivers take care of greater than 400 sufferers every yr. For greater than a decade, Doylestown Health center has been a part of the Penn Most cancers Community, a gaggle of hospitals and doctor practices all over the higher Philadelphia area taking part with Penn Medication’s Abramson Most cancers Heart to offer expanded get admission to to therapies and medical trials. 

Penn Medication famous that the announcement of the proposed partnership is a initial step in a procedure that may remaining a number of months. As soon as due diligence is finished and definitive agreements had been signed, the plans can be reviewed by means of all essential federal and state regulators. 

The similar holds true for the Jefferson-Lehigh Valley deal. That blended machine would perform 30 hospitals and greater than 700 websites of care, supported by means of greater than 62,000 hired school, clinicians and workforce in Jap Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey.