By OPEN MINDS Circle
Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health closed on their formal combination to create a new entity, Advocate Health. The new entity aims to bring medical innovations to consumers more quickly, address the root causes of health inequities, advance population health, and enable career advancement for its direct care teammates.
Initially the organization will be co-led by Eugene A. Woods, chief executive officer (CEO) of Advocate Health and Jim Skogsbergh, who plans to retire in 18 months. The board of directors comprises an equal number of members from Advocate Aurora and Atrium Health. Thomas C. Nelson, chair of Atrium Health’s board of directors, will chair the new organization’s board until December 31, 2023. Michele Richardson, chair of Advocate Aurora’s board of directors, will assume leadership for the immediately succeeding two-year term.
Advocate Health is headquartered in Charlotte, while maintaining a strong presence in the Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin areas. It plans to open a planned, new, Milwaukee-based institute for health equity. The Advocate Health Care, Atrium Health and Aurora Health Care brands will continue to be used in their respective local communities, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the combined entity. The combined organization serves nearly 6 million patients annually and is the fifth-largest nonprofit integrated health system in the nation. With revenues of more than $27 billion, the newly combined organization comprises more than 1,000 sites of care and 67 hospitals with more than 21,000 physicians and nearly 42,000 nurses. The health system delivers nearly $5 billion in annual community benefit.
Contact information: Atrium Health, 1000 Blythe Blvd., Charlotte, North Carolina, 28203; 800-821-1535; Website: https://atriumhealth.org/campaigns/corp-com/advocate-health
Contact information: Advocate Aurora Health, 750 West Virginia Street, P.O. Box 341880 Milwaukee, WI 53234; 855-624-9366; Website: https://www.advocateaurorahealth.org/