Great Plains Health has acquired North Platte, Nebraska-based Eye Surgeons of Nebraska. Beginning on January 1, 2023, the clinic will operate under its new name, Great Plains Health Eye Institute.
Also based in North Platte, Great Plains Health is a fully accredited, 116-bed, acute-care regional medical center serving western and central Nebraska, northern Kansas and southern South Dakota. With 90 physicians representing nearly 30 medical specialties, the Great Plains Health system offers advanced health care, including heart and vascular, cancer and orthopedic surgery services. Great Plains Health is a Level III trauma center and all of its emergency department physicians are residency-trained and board-certified in emergency medicine. The system has approximately 1,200 employees.
The transaction is part of a trend in which hospitals and health systems acquire medical facilities of various types, allowing the larger organizations to capture more of what patients spend on health care. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to the LevinPro HC database, this was the 82nd eye care practice transaction reported in 2022. This compares with 87 eye care practice deals announced between January 1, 2021, and November 28, 2021.
