Ascension, America’s biggest Catholic health system, has agreed to buy Presence Health, the largest Catholic system in Illinois.

Presence Health would become part of AMITA Health, a joint venture between Ascension’s Alexian Brothers Health System and Adventist Midwest Health. All Presence Health facilities would be added to AMITA except for Presence Life Connections, which will become part of  Ascension’s senior-care subsidiary, Ascension Living.

And so the hospital-system merger waves rolls on.

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