Community Psychiatric Clinic Merges with Navos

Community Psychiatric Clinic Merges with Navos

Two Seattle-based not-for-profits have teamed up to scale up, essentially. Community Psychiatric Clinic (CPC) and Navos, a wholly owned affiliate of MultiCare Health System, announced their merger on June 14. Navos is the public behavioral health provider for more than 40% of all youth served in the King County community behavioral health system, and is the largest behavioral health provider in Washington state. CPC operates four clinics in Belltown, Lake City, North Gate and Wallingford, and provides mental health, substance abuse disorder treatment programs, as well as supportive housing services. Navos offers a full spectrum of behavioral health services to more than 12,000 low-income... Read More »

Steward Health Buys 8 Community Health Hospitals

It’s no secret that Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH) is selling off hospitals and medical office buildings to pay down its $15 billion debt. Its latest deal offloads eight hospitals with a total of 1,818 beds in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania to Steward Health Care LLC for an undisclosed price. The hospitals involved in this deal are Wuesthoff Health System-Melbourne (119 beds) in Melbourne, Wuesthoff Health System-Rockledge (298 beds) in Rockledge, and Sebastian River Medical Center (154 beds) all in Florida; ValleyCare Health System of Ohio, which consists of Northside Medical Center (355 beds) in Youngstown, and Trumbull Memorial Hospital (311 beds) and Hillside Rehabilitation... Read More »

Community Health Systems Starts Divesting Hospitals

It’s no secret that Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH) has a $15 billion debt load, and that despite its spin-off of Quorum Health Corp. (NYSE: QHC) last April, its financial performance hasn’t improved. During the company’s third-quarter earnings call on November 1, CEO Wayne Smith said the company was in discussions to shed 17 of its 157 hospitals, as well as home health services and non-hospital real estate. The most recent deal following that call was announced on November 17. Community Health’s Spokane, Washington-based Rockwood Health System will become part of Tacoma, Washington-based MultiCare Health System, a not-for-profit system that operates five... Read More »